Course Mechanics Explained Here
8 Session Bootcamp January 11 – January 29 2021
Schedule 2021
| Date | Topic | Watch Podcasts by | Readings and Homework due |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | |||
| Jan 11 | R Environment | ||
| Jan 13 | R data types - Objects | 1-R intro 2-Environment | Intro-R: Appendix A, Ch 1 R Environment, Ch 2-3 Objects |
| Jan 15 | Git-R Workflow, Manipulating Objects, Scripts | Factors Git and R | Rbootcamp: Factors, Building Dataframes, Scripts. Ch 3-3.2, pg. 31, 4.3-4.6, 7. RefreshR: 1.2 Objects, 2. Functions and Scripts |
| Week 2 | |||
| Jan 18 | MLK Holiday | ||
| Jan 20 | Indexing using logical vectors | Dataframe Access | Rbootcamp: 5 Help ,6 What is it?,9 Workhorse Functions hw1-cars due Jan 20 at midnight |
| Jan 22 | Data Input/Output, Writing Functions, and putting it together | Dataframe Access | Rbootcamp: 8 Data IO, 10 Functions |
| Week 3 | |||
| Jan 25 | Loops and Scaling up, Program Flow | Loops and Program Flow chapter | |
| Jan 27 | Data Cleaning - String Matching, Manipulation, Replacement | Rbootcamp: 11 Data cleaning | |
| Jan 29 | Some fun stuff in R | Rbootcamp: 12 Multivariate |