Chapter 1 Welcome!

In this tutorial we will be teaching R from the beginning - showing you how to set up R, building foundational R skills then moving onto how to plot and manage your data. Finally, we will introduce modelling in R.

We have written the tutorial in a problem-orientated style. Each chapter will introduce a problem and then we will use R to solve the problem. We have taken this approach as it should hopefully provide you with a context to approach your own problems with and, ideally, by the end of this tutorial, you will have learned enough to apply your skills to your own research questions and data.

We don’t expect you to have memorised everything in these tutorials - it’s unrealistic and it’s not how data analysts work. Our main goal for the end of the tutorial is to teach you where to look and to be able to understand what you find so you can learn R yourself and when your your needs grow, you can solve the problems yourself.

The files for this tutorial are available for your personal use. If you reuse sections of this tutorial, please mention us and the appropriate citations found in the biblography.

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