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Introduction to the layout of R Studio

Jessie Morrill Author

10/08/2024 Added

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A tutorial video for navigating the R Studio interface.

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[00:00:00.000]Okay, so in this video, I want to just give a quick tutorial over the layout of RStudio
[00:00:12.920]as you begin to get familiar with how to use the program.
[00:00:18.060]Okay, in this video, I want to give a quick overview of the layout of RStudio so that
[00:00:25.120]you can become familiar with where to look for things as you get started using this program.
[00:00:31.960]So the first area that I want to describe is going to be the found in the upper left
[00:00:37.900]hand corner of your screen, we're going to call this the script or editor pane.
[00:00:42.880]And so the purpose of this area is going to be for writing and editing scripts, making
[00:00:47.760]notes, running different lines of code, making comments on on the code that you have.
[00:00:54.920]Okay.
[00:00:54.920]Our comments about your data can all be done here.
[00:00:58.560]And the script is something that you can save and share with your colleagues that they'll
[00:01:02.980]be able to open on their own computers to be able to run and repeat exactly what you
[00:01:09.020]did on your computer on their own computers.
[00:01:12.120]So this is kind of like a Word document, if you will, within RStudio.
[00:01:17.960]The other area I want to show is going to be the bottom left hand quadrant, which is
[00:01:21.720]the console.
[00:01:23.460]So
[00:01:24.880]you can execute R commands directly in the console, but the console also shows you the
[00:01:31.040]results for different lines of code that you may run up in the script.
[00:01:36.220]So if I go back up to the script, and I use this
[00:01:41.960]just as a calculator where I run a line of code that's one plus one, what's going to show up in
[00:01:48.120]the console is the answer to that that particular equation that we put into R. So it gives us the
[00:01:55.710]answer is two. Now I want to do another thing really quickly where I want to set this equation
[00:02:03.310]equal to the name math because I want to create this as an object. I'm going to run that line of
[00:02:09.550]code. So now you can see that what we've done is we've run the line of code math equals one plus
[00:02:15.810]one. Now if we go to the upper right hand quadrant we're going to call this our environment. What you
[00:02:22.610]can see in the environment is where different data is loaded but you can also see the value
[00:02:29.590]for the object that we just ran. So the object we ran was math and the value associated with math
[00:02:36.470]is equal to two. So if you load in data into R this would also be where you'd be able to see
[00:02:43.910]all of those different things. If you
[00:02:45.670]create graphs you'll be able to see the graphs that you create in R but they'll all be listed
[00:02:53.350]as objects with values associated with them. So that brings me to my next point that I want to
[00:03:00.630]bring up and that's the bottom right hand corner of the RStudio screen. And so this area is going
[00:03:08.170]to be useful for being able to see all of the files that are in your working directory. It's
[00:03:15.530]going to be useful for being able to see all of the files that are in your working directory.
[00:03:18.890]You're also able to see the different packages that are installed and loaded onto your computer.
[00:03:25.850]There's also a help tab and then there's a viewer content or viewer tab as well.
[00:03:32.550]So I hope this helps as you begin to learn to navigate R.

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