Statistics and Statistical Programming (Winter 2021)/Day 4 session plan

Agenda

 * Reminders:
 * Research Project Plan + Dataset Identification (due next Friday 10/9)
 * If you're having trouble getting started, check out the many suggested resources in the Wiki
 * Feel free to use OH / Discord to chat with the teaching team about these
 * Managing R and RStudio
 * Lost in space: workspaces, environments, working directories, projects, notebooks, scripts, and consoles oh my!
 * Rmarkdown, code chunks, and knitting
 * Code, functions, concepts
 * Data import tips
 * Writing "clean" and "elegant" code
 * Vectorized functions (yes, these are confusing)
 * Selection/subsets/masks
 * Statistical Questions
 * When are mean/sd appropriate? How to know?
 * Interpreting summary stats of a transformed variable
 * Session feedback!