Mastering R: Best Practices and Essential Tools

Learn best practices in R, version control with Git and GitHub, functional programming, and reproducible environments


What you'll learn
Learn how to use RStudio efficiently
Best coding practices
Learn version control and collaboration with Git and GitHub
Create private and public repositories, clone, fork, and many other commands
Learn functional programming and iteration with purrr
Create reproducible environments
Switch very easily between R versions
Apply all the learned techniques with a real project

Requirements
Programming experience with R is highly recommended and preferred

Description
Welcome to
Mastering R: Best Practices and Essential Tools
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In this course, we aim to address a significant gap in the market by equipping R users with the knowledge and skills needed to implement best practices. You will learn how to organize your projects effectively, adhere to the highest coding standards, and utilize a suite of powerful tools that will enhance your productivity and collaboration.
Our focus will be on providing you with practical, everyday techniques that streamline your workflow and make your code robust and shareable. By the end of this course, you'll be able to avoid the common pitfall of "this script works only on my machine" and ensure your projects are reproducible and portable.
Course Content:
Section 01: Introduction to the course
Section 02: Rstudio IDE
Setting up and navigating RStudio for an optimized coding environment.
Essential shortcuts and tips
Section 03: Best coding practices
Learn to write clean, efficient and maintainable R code
Section 04: Version control with Git and GitHub - Configuration
Installation and setup of Git and GitHub
Generate 2 Factor Authentication
Section 05: Version control with Git and GitHub - Working with repositories
Managing your code changes and collaborating with others using Git and GitHub
Learn different ways of creating and cloning repositories
Understand how privacy works
Git workflow
Section 06: A real project
Implement the previous learning in a real-world project
Section 07: Introduction to functional programming
Learn what functional programming is
Create basic and advanded functions
Iteration
Section 08: Functional programming in our real project
Change our real-world project to a project based in functional programming
Section 09: Reproducible environments
Creating reproducible R environments to ensure consistent project dependencies
Course Details:
Duration: Approximately 9 hours
Lessons: Over 100 lessons
Join us on this journey to mastering R, and take your coding skills to the next level!
Who this course is for:
Intermediate R users
Advanded R users who want to learn the best practices

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