This 3-day course is an introduction to the R Statistical language, a free open source environment for statistical computing and graphics. Participants will learn to perform basic data manipulation and descriptive analysis, including graphics display. The course is intended for those who want to use R in their day-to-day work for importing external data, manipulating data, performing statistical data analysis, and visualisations. No prior experience with R is required, but experience handling data and basic knowledge of statistics may be advantageous.

Course Content:

  • Familiarise with the RStudio interface,
  • Basic R operations and functions,
  • Summary statistics and data aggregation,
  • Loading packages and importing external data,
  • Introduction to data manipulation with packages - data.table and dplyr,
  • Introduction to data visualisation – base R and ggplot2,
  • Simple linear regression functions.

Dates:  To be confirmed

 

 

 

 

 

 

*DataFirst reserves the right to cancel this course in the event of insufficient registration.