Resources

Here are additional resources to help you on your R journey - either before, during, or after the class! Click each section to expand.

Help Getting Started

Class Cheatsheets

Troubleshooting Guides

Keyboard Shortcuts

Extra help

Need help with data import?

Video on data import
Video for PC users who want to see how to move files around (especially from downloads)
Video for Mac users who want to see how to move files around (especially from downloads)
Extra information about file paths

Need help with joins?

Need help with plots?

Need help with stats?

Courses & Conferences

Tidyverse Skills for Data Science Book (a great next step to learn more about the tidyverse, some modeling, and machine learning)
Tidyverse Skills for Data Science Course (same content with quizzes, can get certificate with $)
Open Case Studies
(resource for specific public health cases with statistical implementation and interpretation - a great next step for learning more about stats and wrangling!)
R for Data Science (great general information)
R for Applied Epidemiology (Similar general introductory course)
R basics chapter of Introduction to Data Science by Rafael A. Irizarry(great general information)
Dataquest (general interactive resource)
Quick R Guide (nice free general resource)
Introduction to Reproducibility
Advanced Reproducibility

PH.140.621, PH.140.622, PH.140.623, PH.140.62 - Statistical Methods in Public Health I, II, III, and IV - The class is mostly taught in STATA, but you can also join a group of students working in R. The class covers many topics in statistical analysis for public health data.
PH.140.778 - Statistical Computing, Algorithm, and Software Development - A more advanced course for working with data in R.
- Content for similar topics as this course can also be found on Leanpub.

R for Stata, SPSS, and SAS files

The Haven package
(This package is super useful for reading and writing files so that they are compatible across Stata, SPSS, SAS, and R)
R vs Stata
(See page 505)
R <-> SAS Cheatsheet
SAS to R Converter
You might also find large language models like ChatGPT useful for code conversion. Be sure to check the output because AI makes mistakes!

Comparison of Python and R

Videos of Previous Online Lectures

From Summer Institute 2023

From Summer Institute 2022

Day	Link to Video
RStudio and Reproducibility	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCsD0f0q6rY&t=9s
Basic R	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YRgDG3qsho
Data IO	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejnBAdA2N1c
Subsetting Data	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFa6dXAezJg
Data Summarization	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj_69maSANk
Data Classes	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoVciFJieLY&t=21s
Data Cleaning	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhK8xMUBNwg
Data Manipulation	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP73AWUjfAU
Intro to Data Visualization	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCVo6vWrKL4
Data Visualization	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UPlZqOfT_s
Factors	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fE756trEEE
Statistics	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ5sskAdAJU&t=4s
Functions	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-85RzN1G0

From Winter Institute 2022

From Summer Institute 2021

From Winter Institute 2020

From Summer Institute 2017