R Essential Skills

Description:

Essential Skills Week: Designed for complete beginners, these hands-on, half-day courses introduce the basics of a range of programming languages and software for use in data analysis.

Outline

This ‘Essential Skills in R’ workshop is for any researcher who has data they want to analyse using the R programming language. No prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the R programming environment and demonstrates the use of the R language for performing basic data analysis.

Course objectives

On completion of this workshop, the participants will be able to;

• Install R and RStudio on their own machine
• Be familiar with the RStudio GUI layout
• Understand R Variables, data types and objects
• Understand the use of Vectors and Dataframes
• Understand how to get help and make use of R libraries
• Read datasets of different formats into the R environment
• Perform simple visualisations of data

After completion of this workshop, the participant will be in a position to create their own R environment and have confidence in using it to produce small effective R programs for a variety of simple data analysis tasks.

Prerequisites

None

Cost:

£60

Website and registration:

https://www.cmi.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/r-essentials-skills

Region:

North West

Keywords:

Quantitative Software, R

Related publications and presentations:

Quantitative Software
R

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