R for Music Research

Meet Alex

Getting started with R and RStudio

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Screenshot showing the RStudio interface with three main panes: the console on the left, the environment/history/connections tab in the top-right pane, and the plots/packages/help tab in the bottom-right pane. Menus and toolbars are located at the top.
The default layout in RStudio

Figure 2

Screenshot showing the RStudio interface with four main panes: the script editor in the top-left pane, the console in the bottom-left pane, the environment/history/connections tab in the top-right pane, and the plots/packages/help tab in the bottom-right pane. Menus and toolbars are located at the top.
The RStudio layout now including the R script editor

Creating a directory structure

Figure 1

Small icon showing a yellow folder with a white plus sign on a green circle
New folder icon

Reading survey data in R

Figure 1

The dummy data set in Excel format
The dummy data set in Excel format

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The dummy data set in csv format
The dummy data set in csv format

Inspecting your data in R

Cleaning your data

Analysing survey data

Visualising survey data with ggplot2

A second case study for music research

Some best practices when writing code in R