R is a popular language and environment that allows powerful and fast manipulation of data, offering many statistical and graphical options. This course aims to introduce R as a tool for statistics and graphics, with the main aim being to become comfortable with the R environment. As well as introducing core R language concepts this course also provides the basics of using the Tidyverse for data maniupulation, and ggplot for plotting. It will focus on entering and manipulating data in R and producing simple graphs. A few functions for basic statistics will be briefly introduced, but statistical functions will not be covered in detail.
Number of course hours : 8
Level: Beginners
Topics Covered:
Course Content:
- What is R
- Getting familiar with the R console
- Entering Data
- Manipulating data
- Importing data files
- Creating Graphs (scatterplots, line graphs, line graphs, histograms and density plots)