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Using R to analyze your data

A quick guide to get you up, running, and computing with the statistical software R.

Helpful Resources

ggplot2 documentation: http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/
For users on campus at WUSTL, you may download a copy of Hadley Wickham's book on ggplot2 from Springer.
Plotly documentation: https://plot.ly/r/
Helpful slides on plotting in base R: http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~ajaffe/Lectures/2010_R_plotting_intro.pdf
Helpful blog post showing some basic ggplot2 plots: https://mandymejia.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/10-reasons-to-switch-to-ggplot-7/

VizinR.Rmd
R Markdown Explorations for Research Studio
Slides
Powerpoint slides from Research Studio.

Creating Apps and Dashboards with R

Getting Started with Shiny
Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web applications (apps) straight from R. This lesson will get you started building Shiny apps right away.
Mastering Shiny
Shiny is a framework for creating web applications, reports and dashboard using R code.
Shiny Course
Self-paced course that was developed by UCSB.