Data Analysis and Visualisation in R

Date
24 May 2023 to 24 May 2023 - 12:30-16:30
Location
Online
Speaker
Elizabeth Oladapo, Joe Molloy

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This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. These lessons can be taught in a day (~ 6 hours). They start with some basic information about R syntax, the RStudio interface, and move through how to import CSV files, the structure of data frames, how to deal with factors, how to add/remove rows and columns, how to calculate summary statistics from a data frame, and a brief introduction to plotting. The last lesson demonstrates how to work with databases directly from R.

What will we learn?

We will be learning from the Carpentries lesson on data analysis and visualisation with R.

Prerequisite knowledge

This lesson assumes no prior knowledge of R or RStudio and no programming experience.

Technical Requirements

This lesson will require an installation of R and RStudio, instructions will be circulated prior. Both are available for all major operating systems.

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