R and RStudio: Information, Tutorials, and Workshops

R is a programming language and a free software environment to write and execute the R language. RStudio is an Integrated Development Environment that provides free and open-source tools for R. While you can run your data analysis in the basic R environment, RStudio has a more intuitive interface and more tools to help you write your R code.

Getting started

• Download R
• Download RStudio
• Follow this guide for additional instructions to get started with R and RStudio
• See below for course, workshop and tutorials to get an introduction to R

Learning resources

Online courses

• Introduction to R, an online, self-paced course administered through Quercus

Workshops

Getting Started with R and RStudio

Tutorials

• Introduction to R
• Getting Started with R and RStudio
• COVID-19 Data in R

Additional resources

• Datacamp’s Free Introduction to R
• UCLA’s R Classes, Seminars, and Learning Modules

Technique: Converting data formats, Cleaning data, Extracting data | Tools: R

Date Created: 2022-05-06 Updated: 2022-07-21