Preface

Predface

In Book 1 I’ll introduce why the role of computers in biology is important and lay out the scope of this book. I’ll also walk through the basic steps of getting R and RStudio up and running on your computer, walk through a basic R session, and discuss the various ways we’ll interact with R using code and script files. I’ll also introduce rmarkdown, a way of integrating the R code of scripts with basic capabilities of word processing and web development. Scripts organized in rmarkdown are a handy way to organize and annotate code, store and disseminate your work, and structure your analyses and data presentations so that the computations behind them are fully reproducible.