Chapter 2 Introduction to R, the Tidyverse - Visualisation

This chapter introduces you to the R programming language and its basics. We use it to create a dataframe, manipulate data, perform statistical analyses, and create visualisations.

We then move to the Tidyverse and how to visualise data using ggplot2. We will use the dataset english from the package languageR. This dataset contains reaction times for lexical decision and naming tasks, as well as familiarity ratings for 4568 English words. We use it to demonstrate how to manipulate data and create visualisations. We also obtain various descriptive statistics.