🗓️ Session 01 - Introduction, overview and installation
In this first week, we will cover what you can expect to learn from these exercises and how they differ from the main lecture. I will elaborate a bit on why I chose R for this course, what you can do with it, and what has helped previous participants helped excelling in this course. Finally, I explain a bit what R is, how it relates to R Studio and LaTeX.
👨🏫 Lecture Slides
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Open the slides, click the ☰ button in the bottom left corner, and choose Tools → PDF Export Mode. Then print the page (Cmd/Ctrl + P) and save it as a PDF.
🎥 Accompanying lecture videos
All the videos are available via this playlist.
📚 Mandatory Reading
Work through the following resources on Method and Inquiry, the methodology hub of the Europa-Universität Flensburg:
- Getting Started with R: Installing Everything You Need (Gräbner-Radkowitsch 2026a)
- Installing R Packages (Gräbner-Radkowitsch 2026b)
- 📥 The installation script referred to in this tutorial is specific to our course: download it here:
install_packages_script.R. Save it in a directory of your choice, open it in R-Studio, and run the whole script as explained in the tutorial. There is nothing you need to adjust beforehand, and you can re-run the script at any point during the semester.
- 📥 The installation script referred to in this tutorial is specific to our course: download it here:
In addition, read the course-specific page on using the exercise package.
✍️ Coursework
- Make sure you installed
R,R-Studio,Gitand all the required R packages - If you have questions or problems, please post them in the Moodle forum