Getting Started with RStudio
Learn how to get started with RStudio and harness the advanced statistical capabilities it offers to analyse your HR data.
What will I learn in this Tech Bite?
In this tech bite led by Adam McKinnon you’ll learn the steps involved in setting up your environment within RStudio, so that you're ready to begin conducting analysis. Adam walks you through three different ways to set up a new project in R, which provide practical guidance on managing and organising your files. He walks you through the process of Importing data as well as how to join data, so that you are armed with all of the knowledge you need to get setup and started doing analysis in RStudio.
Who should take this Tech Bite?
This tech bite is designed for anyone in a People Analytics or Data Analysis role and anyone who is looking to better understand how to use RStudio to make data analysis simpler so that they can easily derive insights and translate those insights into recommendations.
By the end of this tech bite, you will have learned:
1. How to set your environment up
2. 3 different ways to setup a project and manage files in R
3. How to import and join data, so that you can begin analysing data.
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