Lecture 1: Introduction

Schedule for today

• Class Logistics: time and place
• R in the Paleo program
• Material for the course: on the R-kheion
• Requirements to pass
• Setup of R, Rstudio and Visual Studio Code
• Pseudo-exam example (today): Number of epochs in geological periods

R in the Paleobiology Master

Semester	Course
0	Computers in geosciences ✓
1	Consolidation of R programming skills
1	Biostratigraphy
1	Invertebrates
1/2	Hypothesis testing
2	Climate and Earth System Data
2	Analytical Paleobiology
2	Phylogenetics
3	Programming and Statistics in Reefs Systems
3	Macroecology

Downloads

• Cooper and Hsing, 2017 - Guide to reproducible code in Ecology and Evolution

Code written during the class

• 2023-01-19_df_stages_series.zip

Homework

Self-study

• Go through the material of the Computers course!
• Symbols
• Everything about Types and Variables