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R in 3 Months (Spring 2025)

Start a New Project

This lesson is called Start a New Project, part of the R in 3 Months (Spring 2025) course. This lesson is called Start a New Project, part of the R in 3 Months (Spring 2025) course.

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Your Turn

Create a new RStudio project
Download data from https://rfor.us/penguins.
Copy the data into the RStudio project you've created
Create a new R Script file and add code to import your data (refer to the Import Data lesson from Getting Started with R course, if necessary)
Save your R Script file

Heads up! Please make sure to download the data file linked above. If you don't download this file and use the penguins_data.csv file from the Getting Started with R course, you will run into issues.

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Course Content

127 Lessons

Welcome to R in 3 Months (Spring 2025)

Complete Pre-Survey

How to Organize Your Files in R in 3 Months

Welcome to Getting Started with R

Install RStudio

Objects and Functions

Examine our Data

Import Our Data Again

Week 1 Live Session (Spring 2025)

Welcome to Fundamentals of R

Update Everything

Start a New Project

group_by() and summarize()

Create a New Data Frame

Bring it All Together (Data Wrangling)

Week 2 Project Assignment

Week 2 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 2 Live Session (Spring 2025)

The Grammar of Graphics

Setting color and fill Aesthetic Properties

Setting color and fill Scales

Setting x and y Scales

Adding Text to Plots

Bring it All Together (Data Visualization)

Week 3 Project Assignment

Week 3 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 3 Live Session (Spring 2025)

Quarto Overview

Tips for Working with Quarto

Bring It All Together (Quarto)

An Important Workflow Tip

Week 4 Project Assignment

Week 4 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 4 Live Session (Spring 2025)

Week 5 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Downloading and Importing Data

Overview of Tidy Data

Tidy Data Rule #1: Every Column is a Variable

Tidy Data Rule #3: Every Cell is a Single Value

Tidy Data Rule #2: Every Row is an Observation

Week 6 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 6 Live Session (Spring 2025)

Changing Variable Types

Dealing with Missing Data

Advanced Summarizing

Binding Data Frames

Week 7 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 7 Live Session (Spring 2025)

Bring It All Together (Advanced Data Wrangling)

Week 8 Project Assignment

Week 8 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 8 Live Session (Spring 2025)

Best Practices in Data Visualization

Pipe Data into ggplot

Reorder Plots to Highlight Findings

Use Color to Highlight Findings

Add Descriptive Labels to Your Plots

Use Titles to Highlight Findings

Use Annotations to Explain

Week 9 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 9 Live Session (Spring 2025)

Create a Custom Theme

Customize Your Fonts

Try New Plot Types

Bring it All Together (Advanced Data Visualization)

Week 11 Project Assignment

Week 11 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 11 Live Session (Spring 2025)

Advanced Markdown

Advanced YAML and Code Chunk Options

Making Your Reports Shine: Word Edition

Making Your Reports Shine: PDF Edition

Making Your Reports Shine: HTML Edition

Publishing Your Work

Quarto Extensions

Parameterized Reporting, Part 1

Parameterized Reporting, Part 2

Parameterized Reporting, Part 3

Week 12 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 12 Live Session (Spring 2025)

R in 3 Months Progress Survey

R in 3 Months Feedback Survey

R in 3 Months Final Project

Week 13 Coworking Session (Spring 2025)

Week 13 Live Session (Spring 2025)

All Videos from R in 3 Months (Spring 2025)

Working with labelled data

Understanding Documentation Pages

Using Function Arguments

Difference between == and %in%