Chapter 4 Quickstart guide to learning R coding

Here’s an outline of key steps to get started learning to run commands and write code using freely available, interactutorials.

1. Check out the RStudio Cloud Primers
   • The basics
   • Working with data
2. Install the swirl package

To install swirl, In the R console run these commands:

install.packages("swirl")
library("swirl")

Then download these two tutorials

swirl::install_course("R Programming")
swirl::install_course("The R Programming Environment")

To get started with swirl type:

swirl()

swirl will guide you through the rest. Choose one of the R Programming tutorials. If you are asked for your Coursera information just skip this using the skip() command.