Helpful resources

Look at the help files ( ?<function> in RStudio console) Look at the cheatsheets Google – often adding “tidyverse” to your search helps Often it’s a lot more pleasant an experience to get your questions answered in person.

Cheatsheets are a great resources for questions on a range of R and tidyverse functions. The tidyverse website has a lot of useful learning resources. If you have familarity with Python, this is a good resource for learning R.

R style conventions R is fairly forgiving about how you type code (unlike other languages like Python, where miscounting spaces can ruin your code!). All of these things will do exactly the same thing:

written by Andrew Heiss Markdown is a special kind of markup language that lets you format text with simple syntax. You can then use a converter program like pandoc to convert Markdown into whatever format you want: HTML, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, etc.

R Markdown is regular Markdown with R code and output sprinkled in. You can do everything you can with regular Markdown, but you can incorporate graphs, tables, and other R output directly in your document.