Short Course: Introduction to R
Event description
Course Overview
R is widely used and extremely powerful statistical software. This course assumes that you have never used R before. You will learn how to obtain and install R, which is open-source software, and RStudio, which is a versatile, user-friendly interface for using R. It is very useful to do this course before our introductory statistics course, Introductory Statistics for Researchers.
This course will cover some basic features of R and lay the groundwork for you to improve your R skills independently. The course is self-paced and focused on developing practical skills.
Course outline
This course will cover topics including:
- Basics of interacting with R – calculations, saving variables so you can reuse them, data types and structures, organising R code in scripts
- Tidyverse – a basic introduction to tidy R code
- Data – reading in and organising data (from spreadsheets) with dplyr
- Plotting – make beautiful figures with ggplot
Course Requirements: You will need a computer with administrator access (to install R and RStudio software before attending the course).
Date: Thursday 9 May 2024
Duration: 10.00am to 5.00pm
Location: K-D26-G07 - Bioscience Building - We highly encourage you to attend the course in
person.
You will receive a certificate of completion for the course.
Note: If you have a funding support and would like to pay by "Internal Funding Payment", please
contact us stats.central@unsw.edu.au
FAQs
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Please send us an email at: stats.central@unsw.edu.au