01. Look at your Data (and get R running).
Content for Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Summary
This week we will dive into using R. We’ll get oriented to the RStudio IDE and start writing code right away. Some of you have some experience with R already. Even so, things may seem confusing, and there are details that are easy to miss. The most important thing is to start doing things in R and to not get discouraged if things don’t work as expected. Remember, on the one hand computing errors (and error messages) are weird and perplexing and frustrating. But on the other hand, this is mostly because computers are fast but dumb, and can only do what they are told, not what you want. This also means that (as Julia Evans remarks somewhere) when something fails there’s always a reason, even if it’s weird or hard to track down.
Readings
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Slides
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