As you go through the course there will be numerous green sections. These will have a On Your Own: Swirl Practice. Swirl is a in R style of learning. It was originally designed for the Coursera courses and now is in use in many other courses. You will see something like this in here:
In order to learn R you must do R. Follow the steps below in your RStudio console:
swirl
package: install.packages("swirl")
swirl
course: library(swirl)
install_course("_______")
Swirl is a tool that will walk you through a series of problems in R. As we move through this course we will install more courses. To run the current course enter this command:
swirl()
You will be promted to choose a course. Type whatever number is in front of _________. This will then take you to a menu of lessons. For now we will just use lesson 1. Type 1 to choose ______ then follow all the instructions until you are finished.
Once you are finished continue on to the next lesson.