Course outline
- Getting started: how R works, R Studio IDE, installing libraries, getting help
- Reproducible research: setting up an R Studio Project, working directory and file structure
- R data types and data structures
- Indexing and basic data transformations
- Importing and exporting data
- R functions
- Descriptive statistics
- Data visualization
This course focuses on getting students started working on projects in R with R Studio. It emphasizes basic R data structures, descriptive statistics, and basic plot capabilities.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course learners will:
- be confident using the RStudio environment
- be able to install and use libraries
- be able to perform basic coding
- know how to create and use data
- know how to import and export data
- be able to perform descriptive statistics
- be able to perform basic data visualisation
- gain hands-on experience of working in R