# RCrashCourse A Crash Course in R for new students in the Colautti Lab and anyone else who might be interested. Written in RMarkdown (mostly). =======

A Crash Course in R

Written for new students in the Colautti Lab

... and anyone else who might be interested.

Written in RMarkdown (mostly).

See final rendered html files at http://post.queensu.ca/~rc91/R

Modules:

1. Fundamentals

• Basic Math in R
• Variables and Objects
• Working with Data
• Summary Statistics
• Saving Output
• Flow Control

2. qplot() -- basic plotting function

• Basic graphs
• Customize with parameters
• Themes and Geoms
• Multiple graphs
• Saving graphs to file

3. ggplot() -- versatile graphics

• ggplot() vs qplot()
• Publication example
• Custom themes
• Complex multi-graph plots
• References for more info (i.e. Hadley Wickham)

4. Regex

• Basics
• Worked examples

5. Advanced Techniques

• Custom Functions
• R Markdown
• Custom Packages