Swirl R Programming Exercises

Installation

The swirl lessons can be downloaded within an R console by running:

install.packages("swirl")
library("swirl")
install_course_github("lin380", "swirl")

To load and start a lesson run:

swirl()

and follow the instructions to get started and to select a lesson.

Lessons

• Intro to swirl
• Workspace
• Variables and vectors
• Objects
• Packages and functions
• Data visualization
• Loops and vectorization
• Regular expressions
• Data manipulation
• Significance testing
• Supervised learning
• Unsupervised learning
• Rendering RMarkdown (not available)
• Compiling research projects (not available)

Acknowledgements

These lessons are adapted from the courses available on swirldev on GitHub.

Sean Kross, Nick Carchedi, Bill Bauer and Gina Grdina (2020). swirl: Learn R, in R. R package version 2.4.5. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=swirl