Introduction to R for Clinical Data Management

Understanding the RStudio Interface

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RStudio area	Typical use	Data management example
Source pane	Write and save scripts	Save a weekly data quality checking script
Console pane	Run commands and view output	Test whether an import command works
Environment pane	View objects in memory	Confirm that `enrollment_data` has been imported
Files pane	Navigate project folders	Locate `data_raw`, `scripts`, and `outputs` folders
Plots pane	View figures	Display missingness by site or visit
Packages pane	Manage packages	Confirm that `tidyverse` and `readxl` are installed
Help pane	Read function documentation	Look up arguments for `read_csv` or `filter`