This repository contains the instructor materials for the D-Lab's R intensive.

You can download the contents of this repository with:

git clone https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/r-for-data-science.git

or, by clicking the "Download Zip" button and then extracting the .zip file.

The instructor of this workshop series will lead you through the activities for each day.

You'll see accumulated teaching notes and examples for each day's topics in the instructor folder. For your convenience, these are available as .Rmd, commented .R files, PDF documents, and HTML slides. The meta-document for this workshop series, which explains the logic behind the structure and topics, can be viewed at the D-Lab guides repository

For information on contributing to this repository, see CONTRIBUTING.md

The standard Drupal workshop descriptions and facetweet postings for this workshop series are in PUBLICITY.md

• data/ : data necessary for interactive coding examples
• examples/
  • save_console_output.R : R code for saving console output to pdf
• instructor/ : teaching notes
• scripts/
  • feedback_cleaner.R : used to clean data for use in Day 3
  • regenrate_files.R : for regenerating .R and .pdf files from .Rmd

This workshop series covers:

1. Interacting with R
2. Datatypes
3. Data structures
4. Reading data
5. Sanitizing data
6. Missing data
7. Reshaping data
8. Summary statistics
9. Plotting
10. Linear models
11. Non-parametric models
12. Functions
13. Loops
14. Parallelization
15. Packages

This workshop uses the following packages:

• Amelia
• devtools
• dplyr
• foreign
• ggplot2
• parallelMap
• RCurl
• roxygen2
• stringr
• tidyr
• XML

D-Lab == Data Intensive Social Science, For All!