Workshop on writing functions in R

Taught by Ritika Giri, Northwestern University IT Research Computing and Data Services

Getting Started

• Download the materials to your machine by clicking on the green "Code" button on the top right and selecting "Download ZIP".
• Unzip the downloaded folder, and double-click on the .RProj file to open up the R Project in RStudio.
• Open nsir-writing-functions.qmd and work through the materials.

Concepts

• Declaring functions in R
• Function arguments
• Returning values
• Passing columns of data to functions with {{}}

Components

• README.md markdown file outlining the repository
• .Rproj folder maintaining an R Project for this directory
• nsir-writing-functions.qmd Quarto document with the workshop contents

Required Installs

• R and RStudio
• Packages: tidyverse and palmerpenguins