**Welcome to the introductory R workshops**
These workshops were conducted as part of training at the University of Surrey.
They are designed to give you an introduction to using R.
You will find that in each session, there will be an R Markdown file which contains the instructions and the code used in the sessions.
Additionally, there will be a file with the data, and a copy of a pdf file produced from the R Markdown file.
**Session 1** Introduces you to the first steps you might want to take when beginning your analysis with R.
**Session 2** Gives you some handy tips on how to operate on the data and how to create your variables.
**Session 3** Is an introduction to plotting using R and specifically the package ``ggplot2``.
**Sesstion 4** Is an introduction to using the ``tidyr`` package.
**Sesstion 5** Is an introduction to constructing for loops which are useful when working through many files. You will also be shown how to merge and create new data files.