This is the repository for an R class at the NICAR Conference in Newport Beach, CA, March 7-10, 2019. Meghan Hoyer of the Associated Press and I will be teaching a 3-part introduction to R.
Meghan will teach the first part, Intro to R and R Studio. You'll find her handout here: http://data.ap.org/projects/2018/meghan-nicar-rclass/processed/Intro_to_R_and_RStudio.html.
I will teach the next two parts, Data analysis and plotting in R, and Gathering and cleaning data in R. Tip sheets and data for both classes are here as well as a suggested reading list.
People using these materials after the conference should have the latest versions of R and R Studio plus the tidyverse, mosaic and janitor packages. Two tutorials and a handful of data files are provided. To get the data, click on the "Branch: master" box next to the word "NICAR2019" in boldface blue letters and then click on the choice "Data"; you'll then see the CSV and Excel files.