Digital Resources for Chapter 3: R and RStudio

Below are digital resources that complement the book Practical Machine Learning with R: Tutorials and Case Studies.



R and RStudio Download


Here, you will find the links to install R  and RStudio. Please remember to install R  before you install RStudio. Also, if you upgrade R, uninstall the old version first before installing the new R version.






How to Work with RStudio


This is a 5 min. video chapter called "RStudio Intro" from a YouTube video by Carsten Lange. The video chapter explains the basic function of RStudio. You might want to stop the video after the "RStudio Intro"  chapter ends.






DataCamp R Course


This is a course from DataCamp. It introduces the basics of R from the start. The course is an interactive course with exercises.






R Data Analysis for Newbies


This is a video from a workshop. It gives an overview of R and also shows some tricks and shortcuts. It is a good starting point. You can skip the Introduction (note, to the right of the video is a table of content), and you do not have to go all the way to the end (maybe you stop at the video chapter Regression).






R for Graduate Students by Y. Wendy Huynh


This is a guide that covers the installation of R and RStudio, basic commands of the tidyverse, as well as graphing with ggplot.






Recording: R Part 1


This is a video recording about how to work with R (part 1).






Recording: R Part 2


This is a video recording about how to work with R (part 2).






Recording: R Part 3


This is a video recording about how to work with R (part 4).






Recording: R Part 4


This is a video recording about how to work with R (part 4).