This GitHub repository contains the materials necessary for the R tutorial (Part 1 & 2) for BU's Global Change Biology Lab (Fall 2021).
- Get Rstudio working on your computer
- Create Rmarkdown files (HTML and Word outputs)
- Learn basic data manipulation
- Perform basic statistics on data
- Create data visualizations
- BI306_Rtutorial_pt1.Rmd - first part that covers:
- Install R and R studio
- View the structure of data sets
- Perform basic summary statistics on data (summarySE() and tidyverse)
- Make R markdown table to display data
- BI306_Rtutorial_pt2.Rmd - second part that covers:
- making figures
- loading your own data
- Misc_files
- word_styles_ref.docx - Word reference style document for R markdown knit
- Part_1 - Materials for part 1 of the tutorial (contains Rmarkdown and knit output files with solutions to in-lab questions for students)
- BI306_Rtutorial_pt1.Rmd - R markdown of part 1 of the tutorial to present to class
- BI306_Rtutorial_pt1.docx
- BI306_Rtutorial_pt1.html
- Part_2 - Materials for part 2 of the tutorial (contains Rmarkdown and knit output files with solutions to in-lab questions for students)
- BI306_Rtutorial_pt2.Rmd - R markdown of part 2 of the tutorial to present to class
- BI306_Rtutorial_pt2.docx
- BI306_Rtutorial_pt2.html
- Student_materials - These can be shared with students and do not contain all code in the knit files.
- BI306_Rtutorial_Lab1* (.docx, PDF, and HTML versions)
- BI306_Rtutorial_Lab2* (.docx, PDF, and HTML versions)
- Student materials for each tutorial should be provided to students along with the accompanying R markdown document containing all the code for the tutorial (found under Part_1 or Part_2). These allow students to take notes along with the walkthrough and see what the resulting document should look like.
This tutorial was designed as a basic introduction to R for use in the Biology of Global Change lab by Colleen B Bove.