1 Introduction

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This resource is designed to provide new users to R, RStudio, and R Markdown with the introductory steps needed to begin their own reproducible research. A review of many of the common R errors encountered (and what they mean in layman’s terms) will also provided be provided. (These will be updated over the next academic year.) Many screenshots and GIFs will be included, but if further clarification is needed on these or any other aspect of the book, please create a GitHub issue here or email me with a reference to the error/area where more guidance is necessary. Pull requests on GitHub for typos or improvements are also welcome and you can easily do so by clicking on the Edit button near Search at the top of the HTML version of the book.

This book will evolve and be updated as needed based on feedback. You can always check the date below to see when the book was last updated.

It is recommended that you have R version 3.3.0 or later, RStudio Desktop version 0.99 or higher, and rmarkdown R package version 1.0 or higher. This is to make sure that the screenshots and GIF recordings match up with the behavior on your machine/set-up. Additionally, you may find that GIFs don’t load sometimes. I haven’t had any problems using Google Chrome and recommend that as your browser to view this book if you have troubles with others.

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## [1] "By Chester on Monday, September 12, 2016 18:45:58 PDT"