learning-objectives.md

Learning Objectives

Unit 1: Foundations of Data

Concepts

• Taxonomy of Data
• Dataframe
  • Unit of observation is in each row
  • Variable is in each column
  • Values are in the cells
• Taxonomy of Data Types in R
• Reproducible workflows
  • Markdown + R

Tools

RStudio Terminology

• Console
• Environment
• Editor
• File Directory

R/RStudio Concepts

• Printing to the console vs saving to the environment
• R scripts as final draft of code, console as the sandbox
• R Markdown as a reproducible version of Word + Excel -R Markdown knits in a fresh empty environment, not in the one you see in your environment pane

R Functions

• +, -, *, /, ^

• <-

• ?

• library(tidyverse)

• c()

• class()

• sum()

• mean()

• data()

• tibble()

• select()

• arrange()

• mutate()

• count()