Preference for registration will be given to individuals enrolled in the GGPlot2 workshop. 

This introduces the basics of R using R Studio, a user-friendly interface. The class assumes no previous programming background, and cover the following topics:

• Key terminology and concepts
• Troubleshooting and getting help
• Essentials of data processing
• Basics of plotting
• Writing scripts

This class will be hands on, so if you are bringing your own laptop to use, you must have R and R Studio installed. Instructions for installing are as follows:

1. Go to https://cran.r-project.org/ and download R for your operating system.
2. Follow the instructions to install R.
3. Go to https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ and download the RStudio Desktop installer for your operating system.
4. Follow the instructions to install RStudio. You must install R before you install RStudio.