02 — Toolkit

R and the shell.

Tools.

Slack channel: #02-toolkit

The theme of this week is to get to know the toolkit we’ll use in the coming weeks. In the morning session the shell is introduced. In the afternoon session we’ll have our first hands-on R experience.

Lecture slides

Morning session slides

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Afternoon session slides

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Code

To be added.

Further recommended resources

Shell

• MIT’s “The Missing Semester of Your CS Education” is a fantastic resource for more in-depth explanations of the computer science basics. Here’s the course’s introduction to the shell: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/course-shell/
• https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/shell-tools/

R

• A lot of this weeks lecture(s) builds on Grant McDermotts fantastic course. Check out his treating of R basics here: https://raw.githack.com/uo-ec607/lectures/master/04-rlang/04-rlang.html