Welcome to Space!!
Today we’ll focus on getting oriented to the course and the tools we’ll be using throughout the semester. Readings are designed to help understand some of the ‘rules’ of R syntax and develop an understanding for manipulating different types of data in R.
Readings
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The syllabus, content, examples, and assignments pages for this class
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Chapter 1 - 6 in Venables et al., An Introduction to R (Venables et al. 2009) - for a quick refresher on data types in R (it’s only 30 pages)
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Lying with maps - a portion of Mapping, Society, and Technology an ebook by Eric Deluca and Sara Nelson.
Slides
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Venables, W. N., D. M. Smith, R. D. C. Team, and others. 2009. An introduction to r. Citeseer.