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Intro to R

What to know

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

You must work with your IT department to ensure R and R Studio is installed prior to taking the course.

About the course

In this introductory course, you will learn practical skills necessary for reading data into R from external sources, manipulating the data, and visualizing it. The course will also cover other basic programming concepts as they are implemented in R, including data types and structures, variable assignment, functions, and packages.

Duration: 4 hours
Location: Offered virtually over Microsoft Teams

What to do

1. Review the course learning objectives

In this course, you will learn:

  • Overview
    • Why use R?
    • R Projects in RStudio
    • Variables and assignment
    • Functions
    • Types, structures, and operators
    • Packages
  • Working with data frames in the tidyverse
    • Key packages
    • Reading and writing data
    • Selecting, arranging, filtering, and mutating
    • Counting and summarizing
    • The pipe operator
    • Joining and pivoting
  • Exploratory data analysis (EDA)
    • Script structure
    • Plots and tables
  • Next steps
    • Getting help
    • Some future learner goals
  • Lab

2. Join the interest list

Fill out our Course Interest form to get a notification email when courses open for enrollment.

This email will include a short Enrollment Form that you will need to fill out to get on the waitlist for that scheduled class. Seats are granted on a first-come, first-served basis so please complete the enrollment form as soon as you can.

Note that filling out the course interest form does NOT guarantee enrollment in any course.

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More details

What is R?

R is one of the leading programming languages for statistics and data analysis.

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