Chapter 1 Welcome to Ready for R!

This course introduces you R by working through common tasks in data science: importing, manipulating, and visualizing data.

R is a statistical and programming computer language widely used for a variety of applications.

Before proceeding with these training materials, please ensure you have an RStudio.cloud account and can see the workspace.

1.1 Introduction to this gitbook

This is a searchable website that serves as a reference for the Ready for R course.

This gitbook is not meant to be a substitute for the Ready for R notebooks. In order to access those, please sign up at the website here: https://ready4r.netlify.app/mailing

1.2 Acknowledgements