Book Image

Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

4 (1)
Book Image

Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

4 (1)

Overview of this book

RStudio helps you to manage small to large projects by giving you a multi-functional integrated development environment, combined with the power and flexibility of the R programming language, which is becoming the bridge language of data science for developers and analyst worldwide. Mastering the use of RStudio will help you to solve real-world data problems. This book begins by guiding you through the installation of RStudio and explaining the user interface step by step. From there, the next logical step is to use this knowledge to improve your data analysis workflow. We will do this by building up our toolbox to create interactive reports and graphs or even web applications with Shiny. To collaborate with others, we will explore how to use Git and GitHub and how to build your own packages to ensure top quality results. Finally, we put it all together in an interactive dashboard written with R.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering RStudio – Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to install RStudio and got a general overview of its user interface. This consists of four main panes: the Source Editor pane, the console pane, the Environment and Help pane, and the Files, Plot, Help, and Viewer pane. We learned their different functions and saw what tools each pane has.

Furthermore, we learned how to create a project with RStudio in combination with Dropbox, and we started our first small data analysis.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to communicate our work with the help of R Markdown, and how to create reproducible research.