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R and RStudio in Digital Scholarship

This guide will provide an introduction to using R and RStudio in research and instruction and what resources are available in the Freedman Center,.

Overview: R and RStudio

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It utilizes a library of thousands of packages for a wide variety of statistical and data visualization purposes. There is a strong interdisciplinary user community; see more at https://www.r-project.org/.

RStudio is a free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for R that provides tools for code, data and workspace management.  We recommend that you install RStudio alongside R from the beginning as it greatly reduces the learning curve.

How to Use This Guide

This home page is an overview. Use the page tabs on the left-hand side to explore: 

Need help? Contact information is available on the left-hand navigation.

Resources

The R for Data Science online textbook 2nd edition (2023) is the recommended textbook for learning about R and the tidyverse.  This is a complete and free online resource.   

Posit hosts a complete set of cheat sheets for R and the tidyverse including a comprehensive guide to working in RStudio.

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