Chapter 5: Coding R with RStudio to Create Academic Outputs

This chapter introduces the basics of RStudio and RStudio Cloud to produce academic outputs with Rmarkdown files.

1Introduction

2Coding with RStudio Cloud

3Exercise: First step with RStudio Cloud

4R Script

5Exercise: Data analytics using R scripts

6R Markdown

7Exercise: Your first Rmarkdown report

8Creating academic outputs

9Exercise: Create your first Rmarkdown paper

10Conclusion

About this course

This tutorial uses contents and examples from the following free online books. They are perfect for beginners, feel free to check them out for further information: R for Data Science by Wickham and Grolemund (2017), A ModernDive into R and the tidyverse by Ismay and Kim (2019), Learning statistics with R by Navarro (2019), Introduction to Open Data Science by the Ocean Health Index Team (2019), Getting Used to R, RStudio, and R Markdown by Kennedy (2019) and Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century by Poldrack (2020).

About me

Ph.D in Social and Experimental Psychology from the University Grenoble-Alpes, France, my researches are focusing on understanding psycho-physiological responses ‘in the wild’. Now Assistant Professor of Business Research Methods at Dublin City University, my domain of expertise relies on multivariate time series analysis and trend extraction for supervised or unsupervised machine learning classification.