Chapter 1 Welcome! :)

You are reading the lecture notes of the R Crash Course. This introducton to R software is for the students from the Master in Economics and Finance (EF) at University of Bergamo (academic year 2022/23).

Enjoy the journey!

1.1 Bibliography for the course

R for Data Science: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/
Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism: https://www.machlis.com/R4Journalists/

In the following lecture notes, this font (with grey background) represents R code. The following is an example of R code with the corresponding output.

print("Hello EF World!")

## [1] "Hello EF World!"

These notes are written in RStudio by using bookdown (https://bookdown.org/). For errors, typos, suggestions, … write to michela.cameletti@unibg.it.