Note: The course should be attended remotely, and will be delivered using online collaborative teaching tools, as a mix of live video-assisted lectures and computer-based tutorials, with a chat session and multiple support staff to answer questions.
Course Overview
R is widely used and extremely powerful statistical software. This course assumes that you have never used R before. You will learn how to obtain and install R, which is open-source software, and RStudio, which is a versatile, user-friendly interface for using R. It is very useful to do this course before our introductory statistics course, Introductory Statistics for Researchers.
This one-day introduction to R will cover some basic features of R and lay the groundwork for you to improve your R skills independently. The course is self-paced and focused on developing practical skills.
Course Outline
This course will cover topics including:
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Basics of interacting with R – calculations, saving variables so you can reuse them, data types and structures, organising R code in scripts
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Tidyverse – a basic introduction to tidy R code
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Data – reading in and organising data (from spreadsheets) with dplyr
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Plotting – make beautiful figures with ggplot
Course Requirement: You will need a computer with access to the course.
Duration: 10.00am to 12.30pm - each day
Location: Online
Online Course Fees (heavily discounted rates with 50% off standard fees)
UNSW Student: $62.50
UNSW Staff: $125
External Student: $225
External: $300
You will receive a certificate of completion for the course.
