R Essential Skills
Date:
29/06/2021
Organised by:
University of Manchester
Presenter:
Peter Smyth
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Dr Laura Swift
01612751980
cmi-shortcourses@manchester.ac.uk
Venue: Online
Description:
This ‘R Essential Skills’ 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.
Cost:
£30
Website and registration:
https://www.cmi.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/r-essentials-skills/#d.en.713113
Region:
North West
Keywords:
Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Quantitative Software, R, R , RStudio , R variables , vectors , dataframes , GUI , R libraries
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