Logistics for Enrolled Students

The workshop will be held in the Faculty of Agriculture, located on Aobayama Campus (Tohoku University). Details for how to get there can be found here.

Install R and RStudio

To access the course materials, you will need to have both R and RStudio installed on your computer. Follow the instructions available on the Posit website: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/.

  • Note that there are two programs you need to download. R (or base R) is the brains or the calculator working behind the scenes - to work with this directly is possible but it’s a bit messy. RStudio is an additional interface that makes it easier to organize your scripts, your plots, your objects, and your files in one window. Typically, we will open RStudio and work directly in that program but it’s important to also have R installed in the background.
  • You should install these two programs before our first class. There will be some time given during our first class to help troubleshoot any issues that might arise during installation.

Schedule & Course Materials

  • to download the .qmd files (Template, Homework) you should right click and “Save Link As…”
  • to view the Notes, just left-click in the usual way
Date Time Letter Topic Notes Template Data Desc Homework Videos
Mon, Jan 20 9:30AM
Introduction and Welcome

11:00AM A Installation, Intro R, RMarkdown, File Paths

12:30PM
LUNCH

1:30PM B Naming Objects, Wrangling data with `dplyr`:: `filter`, `select`, `arrange` possum.csv

3:00PM C Aggregating data with `summarize`, `group_by()`

4:30PM
Office hours / Catch up
Tues, Jan 21 9:30AM D Making plots with `ggplot2`

11:00AM E More making plots with `ggplot2`

12:30PM
LUNCH

1:30PM F Joining co2.csv

3:00PM G Reshaping/Pivoting

4:30PM
Office hours / Catch up
Wed, Jan 22 9:30AM H Working with categorical data using `forcats`

11:00AM I Working with dates using `lubridate`

12:30PM
LUNCH

1:30PM J Seal Data

3:00PM K Sustainability Data

4:30PM
Office hours / Catch up
Thurs, Jan 23 9:30AM L Lobsters / Time Series

11:00AM M Intertidal / Regression

12:30PM
LUNCH

1:30PM
Afternoon Off
Fri, Jan 24 9:30AM N Pretty Documents: tables, figures, cross-references, and bibliography

11:00AM O Maps

12:30PM
LUNCH

1:30PM P Pretty Documents: colors, themes, and scales

3:00PM
Office hours / Catch up