First steps with R

Overview

R is a powerful and flexible programming language used by academics, corporations and governments all over the world.

This course will give an introduction to R basics and Rstudio (integrated development environment for R) in an interactive manner.

It is designed to:

Give students an introduction to the programming language R
Provide a sound understanding of R data types and data structures
Became confident in the analysis of data with RStudio environment

Appreciate and apply the R programming from a statistical perspective
Acquire foundations, essentials for more advanced programming courses with R

Requirements

Prior knowledge

NO prior knowledge in programming is required, while a genuine interest in statistical programming is welcome. This course assumes you are comfortable with basic math, algebra and logical operations.

Material

Each student must bring their own laptop with R and Rstudio installed with recent versions. Please look at install tutorial to set it up prior to the course.

Schedule

Dates and time

The course consist of interleaved lectures and hands-on exercises followed by a wrap-up and questions session.

9:45 - 10:00 Set-up & Coffee
10:00 - 12:30 Course work - mix of lectures and exercises

Please join us for the welcome coffee to test your connection, R set-up and to pose questions.