Session 2 – Getting started with R

Every later session depends on R and an IDE that work, so the term gives them a session of their own. If you already write R you can skip to session 3, but the grammar-of-graphics part is worth your time because the class chart is read with it in session 9.

Work through	What you do	Timing
Setup and Positron, RStudio and VS Code	Install R and an IDE (Positron, RStudio, VS Code, etc.) and run the check script. Open the browser lab once as well, since it is where demonstrations run and where a failed installation is worked around. Then the IDE module: where the console, the variables and the data viewer are in the IDE you chose, and the six steps of section 6 in the workspace.	60 minutes
Getting started with R	Sections 1 to 7: the console and the script, objects and data frames, reading a CSV, the pipe, and one task written three ways.	90 minutes
Getting started with R	Sections 8 and 9: the grammar of graphics, built up until the class chart can be read layer by layer.	60 minutes

By the end of the session you have a working R installation inside an IDE, have opened the browser lab once, and have a short script that reads EUframes_cy.csv, confirms its 270 country-years and draws one figure from it.