Class Schedule (January 2024)

This set of four January sessions was originally designed to build on the seven R bootcamp sessions in August.. Unfortunately, attendance at those sessions was significantly lighter than intended — all PhD students and a few Master’s students attended those sessions (in person or on zoom), but I know there were quite a few Master’s students who were unable to attend for various reasons.

Class Overview

Because we only have four sessions available, and I would like these sessions to be a useful refresher for those who did not have a great deal of experience with R prior to August, the plan for these sessions will be as follows:

If you did not attend the August sessions

  • You will be asked to complete a handful of introductory readings and exercises prior to the first session on January 5th. Those are detailed below. - You may complete these readings and exercises on your own schedule, and help will be available in a slack group to which you will be invited. However, I will ask that you submit your completed exercises to ensure everyone is making progress prior to January 5th.

  • Attendance will be expected at all four of the sessions being offered, in person or on zoom. As a reminder, these workshops are mandatory if you wish to enroll in POLSCI 630.

  • If you feel you have extremely strong R skills, please email me at nick@nickeubank.com with information about your past experience with R (especially base R, rather than tidyverse tools) and some R code you think demonstrates your expertise with base R.

If you DID attend the August sessions

  • You are welcome to attend any of the sessions being offered.

  • You are required to attend the sessions on January 8th (in person or on zoom).

Session 0: Materials to do Before January 5th if you weren’t present in August

Basics of R

Then

Intro to Vectors

Then

Intro to Matrices and Lists

Then

Jan 5th and 8th Sessions

All Sessions will be in person in Gross Hall, Second Floor, 270, and on zoom at https://duke.zoom.us/my/nickeubank

Session 1: DataFrames

Friday, January 5th 2024, 10-11:30

Do Before Class

In Class

Session 2: Loops and Functions

Friday, January 5th 2024, 2-3:30

Do Before Class

In Class:

In Class

Session 3: Loops & Bootstrapping

Monday, January 8th 2024, 10-11:30

Read Before Class:

In Class

Session 4: R Markdown

Monday, January 8th 2024, 2-3:30

Read Before Class:

In Class