BMET 27A81 - Introduction to R

This course provides a practical introduction to programming with R, tailored for students in the social sciences and related disciplines with no programming experience. Starting from the basics—such as working with RStudio, understanding data objects, and using packages—students build core skills in data handling, analysis, and visualization. The course covers fundamental programming concepts including data structures, functions, loops, conditional logics, and readable code using pipes and tidyverse. It plays emphasize on building reproducible workflows and scripts for projects. Students gain hands-on experience importing, cleaning, and summarizing real datasets, producing publication-ready graphics with ggplot2, running linear regression models, and communicating results in reproducible R Markdown reports.