A gentle introduction to R programming

Welcome

This is the webpage of the “catch-up” course on R. No prior programming knowledge is required although it’s of course a big plus.

System requirements

All you need is:

• the most recent version of R: for Windows, Linux and MacOS

• the most recent version of RStudio: you only need the free version

Data (needed for the exercizes)

• High tech employment in Europe

• USPTO patent sample and citations

• English stopwords

Slides

• introduction to R (pdf)

• introduction to data.table (pdf)

• (very limited) introduction to string manipulation (pdf)

• for an introduction to graphics in R, look at this killer tutorial by Garrick Aden-Buie

Please keep in mind that any coding that I’m doing live during the class is lost.

Exam

The exam consists in an homework, the due date is the 20th of November.

You can find the subject here.

The data can be found at this link (it’s a ZIP file containing 5 text files).

You have to upload the files on Moodle, at this link. Manually on Moodle you can find it with: Formation -> Plateforme pédagogique -> Montesquieu -> “Remédiation R, M1 IREF M1 ROAD” (the course is at: FACULTE ECO GESTION AES / MASTERS 1 / IREF).