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How to use R Markdown (part two): for learning R!

In part two of my series on R Markdown, I'll go over how to use R Markdown for learning R by documenting your journey into your own guide to R.

How to use R Markdown (part one)

R Markdown is a powerful method for creating reports that combine formatted text with R code. This can help you with accountability, data analysis reproducibility, for making tutorials (like this one), and also for learning R! In part one of this two-part series, you'll learn how to create basic R Markdown documents with all the essential content.

Introduction to missing data (NAs) in R

In this tutorial, I'm going to explain what exactly an NA value is, how you can find NAs in your data, and how to remove them.

How to join tables in R

In this tutorial, I show you how to combine tables (data frames) together using both base R and the `dplyr` package.

Making your first plot in R

In this tutorial, I teach you how to create a basic scatterplot using base R.

How to install (and update!) R and RStudio

The first step to learning R is to have it downloaded on your computer! In this blog post, I introduce R and RStudio and show you how to download and install them.

How to go from R to nice tables in Microsoft Word

As scientists analyzing their data, we often have data or results in R that we want to export to a word processor for the reports or publications that we’re writing. In this tutorial I show you how to do just that!

Video tutorial on the essentials of R for ecology cheatsheet

Here I present a video tutorial and walkthrough (and code) that I created to go over my cheatsheet on the 80% most important functions in R (for ecology)

Intro to evolutionary algorithms with R for beginners (from scratch) [PART 1]

Here I describe how evolutionary algorithms work by going through an example of fitting a basic linear model.

How to actually make a quality scatterplot in R

Scatterplots are one of the most common types of data visualizations you will encounter as a biologist. Here I go over how to make quality scatterplots that are ready for publication.