Section 1 Introductions

• purpose of the course, expectations
  
• topics to be covered
  
• tools to learn
  
• reproducible research
  • the R environment and Rstudio
    
  • programming and plotting; data science
    
  • LaTeX environment
    
  • using R notebooks and Rmarkdown
    
  • a short R tutorial
    
  • a sample Rmarkdown document: code — html output