R Crash Course
Introduction
Learn the fundamentals of R the open source statistical computing and graphics environment and language.
R provides researchers and students with a wide variety of extensible data processing, statistical and graphical libraries.
This crash course is organized to be given as a series of seminars over the period of 4 days. Each day will include a practice session to practice some of the R commands.
Please use the accompanied datasets in order to be able to perform the associated exercises correctly.
Course Materials
Day 1
The following topics will be covered in this day:
- Introduction to R
- Introduction RStudio
- Simple Data Import / Export Functionalities
- Simple Statistical Operations Using R
- Using R Help
Day 2
The following topics will be covered in this day:
- Introduction to R Programming
- R Data Types
- Control and Loop Structures
- R Functions
- Scoping
Day 3
The following topics will be covered in this day:
- Creating Simple Graphs Using R
- Customizing Graphs
Day 4
The following topics will be covered in this day:
- Introduction to ggplot2 plotting package
- Slides - Practice Session - Extra Practices