Lesson on R for social scientists. Please see https://datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/ for a rendered version of this lesson.

This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. These lessons can be taught in a day (~ 6 hours). The lessons cover some basic information about R syntax, the RStudio interface, and move through how to import CSV files, the structure of data frames, how to deal with factors, how to add/remove rows and columns, how to calculate summary statistics from a data frame, and a brief introduction to plotting.

The instructor notes page have some tips about how to best teach this workshop.

Maintainers:

• Juan Fung
• Allison Theobold
• Kelsey Gonzalez