R Essential Skills
Date:
26/03/2019
Organised by:
Cathie Marsh Institute - University of Manchester
Presenter:
Dr Peter Smyth
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Grace Bishop
Description:
Outline
This ‘Essential Skills in R’ half day workshop (1-4pm) 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
Cost:
£60
Website and registration:
https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/list/
Region:
North West
Keywords:
Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, ICT and Software, Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination
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