Hello and welcome to BI5012. This website compliments the BI5012 MyAberdeen course site and is mainly used to host exercises and associated exercise solutions, data files and short howto videos covering some important R related topics. You can find all other material for BI5012 on the MyAberdeen course website.
The first thing you will need to do is download and install both R and RStudio on your computer. Take a look at the Setup link on the navbar at the top of this page for further instructions on how to set up your computer. At the heart of this course is our open access online ‘Introduction to R book’ which you can find by either clicking on the R Book link in the navbar. The book is split into 9 Chapters which cover different aspects of using R and RStudio, from general orientation, basic R operations, importing and manipulating data, plotting data, programming in R, R markdown and using version control. During this course we will be covering the first four Chapters only. You can test your understanding of each of these Chapters by completing the associated exercises which you can find by clicking on Exercises . Solutions to all the exercises are given here. We suggest that you don’t peek at the solutions too quickly and only use them to confirm your answers or if you get stuck and feel like throwing your keyboard out of the window! There are also some additonal resources such as short how-to videos walking you through some important topics which you can find in the Learn link.