Summary and Setup

This is a new lesson built with The Carpentries Workbench.

This lesson will give you a brief introduction of different techniques and details on how to do data visualizations in R.

Software Setup

Details

To ensure you have the proper environment for creating and customizing graphics in R, it’s essential to set up RStudio correctly. Begin by downloading and installing R from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) website, followed by RStudio from the official RStudio website. Choose a CRAN mirror closest to your location and download the appropriate version of R for your operating system (Windows, macOS, or Linux), and follow the installation instructions to complete the setup.

Once installed, launch RStudio and install essential packages through the console by running install.packages(c("ggplot2", "dplyr")).

R Console

This should appear on the left corner on your screen inside RStudio. Console

Set your working directory using setwd("path/to/your/directory"), and create a new script file for your projects. Load the necessary libraries at the beginning of your script with library(ggplot2) and library(dplyr).

Now, inside this newly created R script, we can begin our lesson.