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Software

Every analysis in this book is carried out with code.

This chapter introduces the tools before the substantive parts begin: the language (R), a dialect for working with data (the tidyverse), and a workshop to keep it all in order (RStudio projects). The aim is not to learn software for its own sake. The aim is to be able to move — quickly and honestly — between a question, the data, the calculation, and the result.

You can read this chapter at the surface and come back later to dive.