Lecture 1

Syllabus and Introduction to R, RStudio, and Quarto

September 30, 2025

Slides & Code

HTML slides • qmd file • R Code

Suggested Reading (from R for Data Science (2e)1)

Chapter 1: Introduction • Chapter 29: Quarto

1 Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel & Garrett Grolemund

Useful Resources

Getting Started

Download R • Download RStudio • Download Quarto • Quarto Tutorial

Cheatsheets

RStudio • Quarto • Base R

Other Readings

Hands-On Programming with R 2
An Introduction to R 3

2 Garrett Grolemund

3 Alex Douglas, Deon Roos, Francesca Mancini, Ana Couto & David Lusseau

Crowdsource Help

CS&SS 508 Slack Workspace • Posit community • Stackoverflow