Introduction

Learning outcomes

• Understand the goal of the course
• Read the learning outcomes of the course

For teachers

Teaching goals are:

• Learners have heard to goal of the course
• Learners have filled in the initial confidence form

Prior question:

• What is R?
• What are features of R?
• What is the Tidyverse?
• What are features of the Tidyverse?

Goal of this course

Feel comfortable to learn R from a Tidyverse-first approach.

Exercises

Exercise 1

• Fill in the initial confidence form

For teachers: what is in that form?

These are the questions to measure your initial confidence in what you are going to learn today. The goal of these questions is to introduce the course's teaching goals in an active way.

Give you confidence levels of the following statements, using this scale:

• 0: I don't know even what this is about ...?
• 1: I have no confidence I can do this
• 2: I have low confidence I can do this
• 3: I have some confidence I can do this
• 4: I have good confidence I can do this
• 5: I absolutely can do this!

Give you confidence levels of the following statements below:

• I feel comfortable with the book 'R for Data Science'
• I can recommend the swirl package to the right person
• I can use ggplot2 to create a simple plot
• I can save a plot created by ggplot2
• I can tell what ggplot2 aesthetics are
• I can tell what ggplot2 geometrical objects are
• I can assign a value to a variable
• I can use snake case when naming a variable
• I can write a comment
• I can correct typos in simple code
• I can read a comma-separated file

• In Zoom, show with the green checkmark that you are done

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