Getting Started with R Course

Learn how to import, visualise and model data with R, with the least amount of code.
Avoid common pitfalls and work with R objects & packages.

Introduction to R

Course content has been developed over 20 years of facilitating S and R language courses to over 1000+ attendees.

Date: Tue. 25 & Wed. 26 May

Schedule:
9:15 – 10:30am  – Session 1
10:30 – 10:45am Break
10:45 – 12:00pm  – Session 2

Duration: 2.5 hours online x 2 days

Price: A$990 + gst

Learn how to import, visualise and analyse data in R, avoid common pitfalls and work with R objects/packages.

Who will Benefit: Business analysts, Data scientists that are new R users. No experience in R, is necessary. Course has largely been developed with input from customers, through experience in providing support, training and consulting.

Course outline:

  • Introduction to R
  • Accessing Help
  • Creating Working Directories for different projects.
  • R Language Objects & Classes
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Manipulation including Stack, Subset & Merge
  • Data Analysis & Graphics 
    – Histograms, Box Plots, Bar Charts, Scatter Plots
    – Changing symbols, colours, style of points, axes, range etc
    – Labelling & Identifying Points. Adding Titles etc
    – Multiple Graphs on a single graphsheet.
    – Plotting Subsets of Rows
    – Adding points, lines, legends to existing plots
  • Exporting Graphics
  • Statistical Models in R 
    – Linear Regression
    – Non-linear Regression