Chapter 8 Summary

R is a programming language and environment that provides a variety of statistical and graphical techniques. We teach and use R because it is open-sourced, compatible with most operating systems, and because it is used by a wide and growing community of scientists. This introduction to R workshop presented the IDE RStudio, presented some basic operation you can do with R, introduced the concepts of objects, fonctions and packages, and provided some useful ways and resources to find help with your analyses in R.

In the next workshop, the objectives will be to get familiarize with R projects and structuring your code into scripts, manipulating data in R, and to introduce packages specifically used to manipulate dataframes.