Intro to R

Title: Introduction to Fisheries Analysis in Program R
Instructor: Paul Schueller, FWC
Date: August 25, 2020
Time: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Agenda:

  • Welcome and Introduction to R basics
    • Overview of operators and objects
    • Data types
    • Data structures
    • Functions and for loops
  • Reading in and manipulating data
    • Importing different file types
    • Subsetting data
    • Work flow with if-else, pipes, and joins
    • Saving your work
  • Graphing
    • Basic data exploration with base plotting
    • Brief introduction to ggplot2
  • Statistics
    • Using statistical distributions
    • Simple tests
    • Linear models and formulas
  • Fisheries analyses with the FSA package
    • Age estimation analyses
    • Growth analyses
    • Catch curves
  • Wrap-Up and Questions