10 Reasons to Learn R

This book is a short hands-on introduction to R with the goal to help you decide whether you should or should not learn it. View it online at https://teebusch.github.io/R-introduction/

Content

• brief introduction to R
• Provide motivation for learning R or for not learning R
• Learn 10 cool things about R
• Hands-on mini data analysis demo to demonstrate the power of R
• Modern beginner-friendly R with the Tidyverse, RStudio, and RMarkdown

Take-aways 🥡

• Is R for you?
• Basic data wrangling, modeling, visualization, and reproducible reporting
• How to learn more?

Instructions for building locally

• Clone this repository,
• open it in RStudio
• In R, run:

if (!require("renv")) install.packages("renv")
renv::restore()
bookdown::gitbook()  # Or Cmd + Shift + B