R for Data Science

Lecture materials of the AST230 course at DU

Introduction

Here are the course materials for the “R for Data Science” course (course code: AST230) at ISRT, University of Dhaka for the 2023-24 academic session, with classes starting from September 24, 2024.

The materials will be updated accordingly as the class progresses.

Course Progress

Lecture Materials

• Course Overview (pdf)
• Install R and RStudio (pdf)

Base R

• 1 Getting started with R (pdf)
• 2 Vector (pdf)
• 3 Working with vectors (pdf)
• 4 Data structurs in R (pdf)
• 5 Subsetting (pdf)
• 6 Writing own R functions (pdf)
• 7 Control flow (pdf)
• 8 More on data frames (pdf)

tidyverse

• 9 Data science workflow (pdf)
• 10 Importing data (pdf)
• 11 Data transformation (pdf)
• 12 Reshaping (pdf)
• 13 Joining (pdf)

Visualization

• 14 Base R plot functions (pdf)
• 15 ggplot2 (pdf)

Packages

• 16 {glue}
• 17 {purrr}

Assignments

• Assignment 2 (pdf)