1 Getting started

1.1 Introduction

Welcome, you have landed at the ebook accompanying my R courses for Life Science students.

Before reading on, you should check whether you are ready to work with R on your own computer. You should have installed R, RStudio and optionally Tinytech or some other Latex alternative for your OS if you would like to create pdf documents from RMarkdown.

1.2 RStudio Shortcuts

Here are the best keyboard shortcuts for RStudio:

ctr + 1 go to code editor
ctr + 2 go to console
ctr + alt + i insert code chunk (RMarkdown)
ctr + enter run current line
ctr + shift + k knit current document
ctr + alt + c run current code chunk
ctr + shift + o source the current document

2 The toolbox