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

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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:

Region:

North West

Keywords:

Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Quantitative Software, R, R , RStudio , R variables , vectors , dataframes , GUI , R libraries

Related publications and presentations:

Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Quantitative Software
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