This introduction to R for plant pathology was originally written as a workshop by Drs. Sydney E. Everhart and Zhian N. Kamvar, and modified to the current form for the 2018 course PLPT 802: Ecology & Management of Plant Pathogens.
The source code can be found at: https://github.com/everhartlab/IntroR-for-PLPT802.
As a result of taking this workshop you should be able to:
- find, download, and load necessary packages for analysis
- load tabular data into R
- understand the basics of data manipulation in R
- know what a data frame, vector, and function are
- summarize data
- visualize data
- troubleshoot commmon problems