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The Case for Switching

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Cartoon of a researcher choosing between a coin-operated turnstile and an open stadium gate marked install.packages()
One gate charges you every season. The other one only asks you to learn the way in.

Your First R Session

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Cartoon of a researcher opening the R console on a laptop at a neighbourhood bar while an iguana watches from the next stool
The dominoes can wait. The console is blinking.

Data Manipulation

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Cartoon of a researcher cooking in a Caribbean kitchen with three labelled jars for the dplyr verbs
The stew takes twenty minutes. The chopping takes an hour.

Visualization with ggplot2

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Cartoon of the coloured waterfront houses of Willemstad drawn as the bars of a bar chart, with a researcher painting them into order
SPSS hands you a chart. ggplot2 hands you a grammar.

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Statistical Analysis in R

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Cartoon of a researcher at a pitchside video review monitor showing a flat regression line and a null result
Sometimes the review says nothing happened. You report that too.

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Reproducible Reporting

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Cartoon of a researcher pressing one button on a machine that turns a changed squad list into a finished report
The squad changed overnight. Again. Good thing the report rebuilds itself.

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Where to Go from Here

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Cartoon of a researcher on a small boat leaving Willemstad harbour with a chart of R learning destinations
You have the basics. The map runs well past the harbour mouth.

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