R-tutorial

This is a tutorial for R beginners who work with the graphical user interface RStudio. It is meant to be self explanatory.

There are some tasks to do in it to test your understanding and to learn interactively. What you learn in the first steps you will need later on. This way you learn how to do more and more complicated tasks and repeat the stuff from the first lessons.

There is also a German version of this tutorial available.

To start using this tutorial:

• dowload and install R and RStudio Desktop (install R first and then RStudio).
• download all tutorial files
• extract the .zip file wherever you want
• double click the R-tutorial.Rproj file to open RStudio.
• in the files panel of RStudio (usually on the bottom right) open the first tutorial file L01 basics.R in the basics folder.
• all further instructions are in the file

Note: To be able to properly read the tutorial text you should open the RStudio menu Tools > Global Options and in the section Code choose Soft-wrap R source files. This way you don't have to scroll horizontal to be able to read all the text.

Acknowledgement

This tutorial was inspired by the tutorial for the texteditor vim.

other resources

Other ways to learn R you find at DataCamp or Try R.