Prep Work #1 / Confirm Registration - Swirl and base R

The registration form reserves your spot for two weeks. You must complete this assignment or your spot may be forfeited to someone on the waiting list. Afterwards, an additional 4-8 hours of work will be assigned each month leading up to the workshop (e.g. R and Unix tutorials, readings, software installation).

1. Follow instructions at Swirl Stats
   • Install R (must be version 3.4.3 or higher)
   • Install RStudio (must be version 1.1.423 or higher)

   • Install swirl

     install.packages( "swirl" )

   • Start swirl

     library( "swirl" )
     swirl()

2. Once in Swirl, install “R Programming: The basics of programming in R”
3. Do lessons 1: “Basic Building Blocks” through 15: “Base Graphics”
4. Submit a screenshot of your final plot hist( mtcars$mpg ) to genomics@jhu.edu