Overview
This is a one day intensive course on R. The course is a mixture of lectures and computer practicals. The main focus will be to introduce fundamental R concepts. No prior programming knowledge of any kind is assumed. This course is suitable for a wide range of applicants e.g., biologists, statisticians, engineers, students.
Outline
- Introduction to R: A brief overview of the background and features of the R statistical programming system.
- Data entry: A description of how to import and export data from R.
- Data types: A summary of R's data types.
- R environment: A description of the R environment including the R working directory, creating/using scripts, saving data and results.
- R graphics: Creating, editing and storing graphics in R.
- Summary statistics: Measures of location and spread.
- Manipulating data in R: Describing how data can be manipulated in R using logical operators.
- Vector operations: details of R's vectors operations.
About the Trainer
Dr Colin Gillespie is a Senior statistics lecturer at Newcastle University and a consultant with Jumping Rivers. He has been using R since 1999 and teaching R programming for the last ten years. Colin has authored a number of R packages, regularly answers R questions on stackoverflow and recently published the book Efficient R Programming with O'Reilly.
