Welcome to Exploratory Data Analysis in R
R together with RStudio is the best data science tool! It is open source and free software that is available to anyone with a desire to discover, learn, explore, experience, expand and share the algorithms of their data science journey.
Data literacy is an essential part of a data-driven culture. In this set of workshops we will teach you to ‘master and speak data with R’ by taking a step by step approach from the beginning to identify unseen details and to produce visual data stories. You will learn the basics of descriptive statistics and exploratory data analysis.
The content of the course is designed to inform, motivate and equip you to use data as part of your everyday language, empowering you and making you more productive in your daily work.
Install R
To begin your journey to data science in R you need to install and make sure you can run it.
You should start by installing R first and then RStudio. The analogy we can use here is that R is an airplane and R Studio is its airport.
- R homepage - http://www.r-project.org
- CRAN Mirrors - http://cran.r-project.org
Note, that those screen shots are showing the older versions of R and RStudio than those you will be installing, but the installation process is still the same. (I still have to do some “important” work in the older versions).
Run the installation
Your R Console should look something like this:
Install RStudio
RStudio is available in open source and commercial editions and runs on the desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux).
Click on RStudio Desktop - https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/, there should be a button to download it.
