“R is a research tool for the analysis and visualisation of data”
September 2019
What is R?
What is RStudio?
Source: Data carpentry
Why use it?
Why use it: open (free!)
Why use it: community
Why use it: replicability
Why use it: versatility
Mapping (pacakge: sf)
Why use it: versatility
Online dashboards (package: shiny), examples: RStudio website
Why use it: versatility
Text analysis (package: tidytext), image source: Jakub Glinka
Why use it: versatility
Aoristic analysis (package: aoristic)
Why use it: versatility
Longitudinal clustering (package: akmedoids)
Why use it: versatility
Longitudinal clustering (package: crimCV), image source: Andrew Wheeler
Why use it: versatility
Spatial cluster analysis (package: spdep)
Why use it: versatility
Concentration measures for crime data (package: lorenzgini)
Why wouldn’t you use it?
Packages: tidyverse
Packages: crimedata
RStudio interface
Live demo.