cm004 2015-09-17 Thursday overview

• Expect an email re: invitation to join the STAT 545 Organization and then expect to be granted your own private repository … um, before you wake up tomorrow? ok that took a little longer than I planned but it’s DONE NOW.
• All about R and data today
  • DATA!! You get to touch some!
  • Exploring a Gapminder excerpt
  • data.frame
  • sneak peek ggplot2
• Indicative of what we will do together hands-on
  • Basic care and feeding of data in R
• Homework 01 will be due before class Tuesday 2014-09-22
  • Homework 01: Create a basic (R?) Markdown document and post it to GitHub.
  • Read the General Homework Guidelines for instructions on submission mechanics
• What’s next week?
  • Tuesday we might return to Git(Hub) and (R) Markdown, now that Homework 01 has gotten your attention.
  • Then we’ll start ggplot2 in earnest.