Post by Ellie Ransom, Research Services Coordinator, Science and Engineering Libraries At last week’s R Open Lab, we visualized our data to test our assumptions of normality using two of of R’s native commands, qqnorm and qqline. We practiced using the built in dataset, trees, and looked at the variables Height and Volume separately. Notice how the Height […]
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R Open Labs: Loading Data
At last week’s R Open Lab, we explored two packages (Memisc and foreign) as well as some of R’s native commands for loading data files into our R Studio workspace. View Slides We practiced with ASCII, .TSV, .SAV, and .DTA files, all available from ICPSR, a data […]
R Open Lab: Week 1
Last week, we kicked off R Open Labs with a demo on Base Graphics, or how to make graphics using basic commands. We also gave a brief intro to Swirl, a great package for learning R. You can catch up here with these helpful slides: Base Graphics System Check back next week, Wednesday, Feb. 3 […]
R Open Labs this Spring in the DSSC
10am – 12pm Every Wednesday Digital Social Science Center Stop by any Wednesday this Spring for R Open Labs. We start off every Open Lab with a 10 minute exploration of an R package or dataset; the rest of the time is yours to work on homework, research or building your coding skills in good […]