18  Base R with Swirl

Learning Objectives:

Use base R to do basic interactive data manipulation and plotting

In this section, we’re going to pass you off to a Swirl course to learn some base R. As we mentioned, “base R” is one of the two major paradigms for working in R.

The instructions are fairly simple. Visit this page and follow the initial instructions.

Install the course R Programming and work through it. There are 15 lessons. Swirl lessons should take 10-20 minutes each, leading to a total time of 3-6 hours.

For future reference, check out this base R cheat sheet.