R is a popular statistical programming language. It is free and open source. Over 10000 packages are available for R, which add additional functionality to the language.
This course is designed for researchers who would like to use R for their data analysis and visualisation. Some basic programming techniques will also be taught. It assumes no prior knowledge of programming, or the R environment, but users should be comfortable with their usual computing environment (Windows/Mac/Linux).
The aim of the course is to equip learners with the basics of the language, and with knowledge to find and use packages that will be useful in their fields of research.
The course uses the freely available R Studio as a convenient and user-friendly development environment.
R and Rstudio are available on the training room PCs, but feel free to bring your own laptop, with this software installed, if you prefer. Please ensure that you can connect your laptop to the Eduroam wireless network.
The course covers:
- Introduction to R and RStudio
- Getting help
- Loading data into R
- Transforming and cleaning data
- Plotting data
- Finding and using packages
- Writing functions