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R: Introduction to R

R: Introduction to R In-Person / Online

Are you interested in using R and RStudio but unsure where to start? This workshop is for you!

This first session of our R Workshop Series will introduce you to the basics of R and RStudio, including

  • finding your way around RStudio
  • interacting with R
  • managing your environment
  • installing packages

This twelve-session workshop series will introduce you to the fundamentals of using R. This course is intended for absolute beginners or anyone wanting to review the basics. Each session will be an hour and a half per and follow the schedule below. We hope to cover the material in the first hour, leaving the final half hour for questions.

  1. Introduction to R (Tuesday, April 5)
  2. Project Management, Seeking Help & Intro to Data Structures (Thursday, April 7)
  3. Data Dtructures Continued & Data Frames (Tuesday, April 12)
  4. Subsetting Data (Thursday, April 14)
  5. Control Flow (Tuesday, April 19)
  6. Creating Publication Quality Graphics with ggplot2 (Thursday, April 21)
  7. Graphics Continued & Vectorization (Tuesday, April 26)
  8. Functions Explained & Writing Data (Thursday, April 28)
  9. Splitting and Combining Data Frames with plyr (Tuesday, May 3)
  10. Data Frame Manipulation with dplyr (Thursday, May 5)
  11. Data Frame Manipulation with tidyr (Tuesday, May 10)
  12. Producing Reports with knitr & Writing Software (Thursday, May 12)

The workshop series follows this Carpentries workshop curriculum.

Dates & Times:
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, April 5, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, April 7, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, April 12, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, April 14, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, April 19, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, April 21, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, April 26, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, April 28, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, May 3, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, May 5, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, May 10, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, May 12, 2022
Time Zone:
Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Campus:
Knight Library
Categories:
  Programming > R     Workshop  
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Event Organizer

Cameron Mulder
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Gabriele Hayden