About R
It's free, integrated, reproducible, automated, and offers a community of support
Why use R?
Enables easy file referencing by using the top-level directory of a file project to easily build file paths
What is the 'here' package?
Run the current code section
What is "Ctrl+Alt+T" or "Cmd+Option+T"?
"Save the source, not the workspace"
What is an important best practice for reproducibility?
Downloadable PDF that gives basic information and tips for different packages
What is a R Cheatsheet?
Perfectly formats data, frames column names, isolates duplicate records, and provides quick tabulations
What is the 'janitor' package?
Show packages
What is "Ctrl+7"?
"Use safe paths"
What is an important best practice for reproducibility?
It matters more than you think is does in your script
What is punctuation?
Collection of packages intended to make data scientists more productive by guiding them through workflows that facilitate communication and result in reproducible work products
What is the 'tidyverse' package?
Search R Help
What is "Ctrl+Alt+F1" or "Ctrl+Option+F1"?
Colorful punctuation that helps you keep track of open and closed statements in your code
What are rainbow parentheses?
Where you see if your code has errors when run
What is the console?
Helps make beautiful and customizable plots of your data
What is the 'ggplot2' package?
Restart R Session
What is "Ctrl+Shift+F10" or "Cmd+Shift+F10"?
help()
help.search()
What is the help function?
Used for explaining why you did certain things in your code
What is the #?
Will run each chunk of R code in the document and append the results of the code to the document next to the code chunk
What is the 'knitr' package?
Insert a pipe
What is "Ctrl+Shift+M"?
IDE
What is an integrated development environment?