My R Skills

"R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics."

The programming language R was developed in the 1990s, a descendant of Scheme. It’s free and excellent for:

• Statistics
• Graphics and visualization
• Data manipulation and analysis
• Programs benefitted by R’s use of vectors
• Web applications

I first learned R as a student researcher in Duke’s Data+ program. My research team was investigating the effects of different environmental stressors on lakes in the IISD’s Experimental Lakes Area, and we had over fifty years of massive datasets. We used R to wrangle and clean the data, and then to develop an interactive R Shiny website for users to see the data for themselves. That website can be found here.

I later performed similar work on a different dataset, this time over fifty years of Duke University student enrollment data. I worked with a team of researchers to create another interactive R Shiny website to show and allow users to explore the data for themselves. That website can be found here.

Here’s my team’s presentation of the second web app: