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Rintro2015

Introduction to R
Date: 27.11.2015 9:00 - 28.11.2015 16:00
Location details: The event is organised at the CSC Training Facilities located in the premises of CSC at Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland. The best way to reach us is by public transportation; more detailed travel tips) are available.
Language: english-language
Price:
  • 60 for-finnish-academics
  • 280 for-others
The fee covers all materials, lunches as well as morning and afternoon coffees.
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The seats are filled in the registration order. You may cancel your attendance without a charge 5 business days prior the course. For cancellations after that and no-shows without a cancellation the full fee will be invoiced.
Additional Information
Content etc.: seija.sirkia@csc.fi Practical matters: event-support@csc.fi

This is a basic introduction to R, meaning that no prior experience with R is assumed, we start from scratch. We also cover only basic usage in order to keep it accessible to participants from all fields. This means for example that we do not cover any specialized methods from any field. However, knowledge of basic statistical methods, such as testing hypotheses and fitting simple linear models, is useful but also not strictly necessary. In other words, the aim of this course is to give the participants a solid understanding of the basics, so that further learning is easier.

The topics covered include:

  • RStudio user interface and workflow
  • Execution of commands in the R interpreter
  • Basic data structures and types (vectors, factors, data frames etc.)
  • Reading in data and handling data
  • Basic analysis and plotting

Questions and suggestions about the contents are welcome. You can also bring your own existing dataset and/or code to be studied during the exercises.

If you wish to work on your own laptop be sure to install R and RStudio on it before the course.

 

Program
Schedule for both days:
9:00-10:30 Lecture & exercises
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Lecture & exercises
12:15-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:30 Lecture & exercises
14:30-14:45 Coffee break
14:45-16:00 Lecture & exercises