This is a repository which contains all the materials to be used in getting started with descriptive statistics course. This course is run by Christopher A Oldnall (chris.oldnall@ed.ac.uk) and Aybuke Atalay (aybuke.atalay@ed.ac.uk). If you notice any mistakes or have any recommendations or comments please get in touch.
For this course, you will need to use the R programming language. There is an expectation that you are familiar with the r-environment but not one particular style or any packages in particular. In order to use R there are some instructions below:
All material collected here is free to use but is covered by a License: 
- Go to https://noteable.edina.ac.uk/login
- Login with your EASE credentials
- Select RStudio as a personal notebook server and press start
- Go to File > New Project> Version Control > Git
- Copy and Paste this repository URL https://github.com/DCS-training/DescriptiveStatistics as the Repository URL (The Project directory name will filled in automatically but you can change it if you want your folder in Notable to have a different name).
- Decide where to locate the folder. By default, it will locate it in your home directory
- Press Create Project Congratulations you have now pulled the content of the repository on your Notable server space.
- Go to https://noteable.edina.ac.uk/login
- Login with your EASE credentials
- Select 'Standard Notebook (Python3)' as a personal notebook server and press start
- Click the '+GitRepo'
- Copy and Paste this repository URL https://github.com/DCS-training/DescriptiveStatistics as the Repository URL - you do not need to add in any other fields.
- Decide where to locate the folder. By default, it will locate it in your home directory
- Press 'Clone' Congratulations you have now pulled the content of the repository on your Notable server space.