Part 1 of the coRps R Building Blocks Series (RBBS). All content can be found on this blog under the rbbs category as well as on the USAID-OHA-SI/coRps GitHub repo.

RBBS 1 - Motivation

We want to kick this series off by providing some motivation for why we are prompting coding via R and how we are doing it in this office. We will also spend time to troubleshoot setting up the required tools and accounts.

Learning Objectives

• Benefits of learning to code
• Framework for the approach and direction
• How we are currently leveraging R
• Where to accessing resources

Material

Recording

USAID staff can use this link to access today’s recording (not available to external users).

Homework

In advance of our next session on data visualization in R, we recommend reading over Chapter 3 in R for Data Science