What I did on my summer vacation.... learned (more) R?

Summer seems like a good time to read books, go to the pool, learn Portuguese, or.... get better with R?!  My graduate student, Nick, had a great idea. Why not have an informal gathering weekly this summer and improve our R skills?  Well, Nick does not really need to improve his R skills from what I can tell, but he has agreed to lead this effort and personally, I am always in need of refreshment in the R department.  (If you know me, you already know that I am a die-hard SAS user for almost everything... but I do use R when I want to be Bayesian or I am slaving over a hot spatially weighted regression.)  In any event, we will use these meetings to go over some basic R skills, but also to get better at graphing and learn some basic analyses.  This is a GREAT opportunity for graduate students who are taking my BSC 695-Experimental Design class in the fall, to get better at programming and get the aggravation of learning R out of the way!
Our first meeting will be Tuesday, May 31 9-11:00am in SEC 2438.  During our first meeting, we will do a very quick overview of the  basics. We will then cover:

• data manipulation, cleaning, and wrangling (focusing on dplyr, tidyr, broom packages)
  
• basic plotting (ggplot2 package)

Before the meeting, please make sure you have installed the newest versions of R (https://cran.r-project.org/), and R studio (https://www.rstudio.com/).
Nick has prepared a group of files with the first week's material, which you can download here.
The second week's (June 7)  files are here.