Introduction to R
Synopsis
R is an open-source software programming language for data manipulation, simulation, statistics, and graphics. It has become broadly used among statisticians, and is increasingly being used for data analysis among researchers inside corporations and academia. The course will make use of the free and open source integrated development environment RStudio.
Target audience
Researchers from companies or academia interested in learn R.
Topics
- Fundamentals of R (help, package, console, script)
- Type of R objects
- Arithmetic and basic functions
- Reading and exporting data
- Manipulating data (subset, with, sorting, transform function,use of family apply functions)
- Graphics
- Construct your own function
- Introduction to the concept of looping in R ("for" and "while" loops)
Schedule
This is a two-days course with the following structure:
- 09:30 - 11:00 Lecture (computer lab)
- 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
- 11:15 - 12:30 Lecture (computer lab)
- 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch (not provided)
- 14:00 - 15:30 Lecture
- 15:30 -15:45 Coffee break (Computer lab)
- 15:45 - 17:00 Lecture (Computer lab)
Lecturer
Valeska Andreozzi, Researcher at the Center of Statistics and Applications of University of Lisbon
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