Intro to R, Part 1 - for absolute beginners

Aimed at students with no background knowledge in programming languages or statistics. Participants will be led step-by-step through the basics of using R for data exploration and analysis, with an emphasis on developing core skills that can be ported over to one's own data sets. Topics will include: reading in data; basic data cleaning and formatting, inspecting and summarizing data objects. Participants will leave knowing whether they can use R for their data, and the basic logic of how R works.