Foundation R Training Course
R is a powerful language and environment for statistical computing and data analysis.
This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level professionals who wish to gain a mastery of the fundamentals of R and how to work with data.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Understand the R programming environment and RStudio interface.
- Import, manipulate, and explore datasets using R commands and packages.
- Perform basic statistical analysis and data summarization.
- Generate visualizations using both base R and ggplot2.
- Manage workspaces, scripts, and packages effectively.
Format of the Course
- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Customization Options
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline
Basic overview of R and R Studio
- R overview
- R Studio Environment Windows
- Script Editor Window
- Data Environment
- Console
- Plots/Help/Packages
Working with Data
- Introduction to vectors and matrices (data.frame)
- Different types of variables
- Numeric, Integer, factor etc
- Changing variable types
- Importing data using R Studio menu functions
- Removing variables ls() command
- Creating variables at the console prompt – single, vector, data frame
- Naming vectors and matrices
- Head and tail commands
- Introduction to dim, length and class
- Command line import (reading .csv and tab delimited .txt files)
- Attaching and detaching data (advantages vs data.frame$)
- Merging data using cbind and rbind
Exploratory Data Analysis
- Summarising data
- Summary command on both vectors and data frames
- Sub-setting data using square brackets
- summarising and creating new variables
- Table and summary commands
- Summary statistic commands
- Mean
- Median
- Standard Deviation
- Variance
- Count & frequencies
- Min & Max,
- Quartiles
- Percentiles
- Correlation
Exporting data
- Write table .txt
- Write to a .csv file
R Workspace
- Concept of Working Directories and Projects (menu driven and code – setwd())
Introduction to R scripts
- Creating R Scripts
- Saving scripts
- Workspace images
Concepts of packages
- Installing packages
- Loading packages into memory
Plotting data (using standard default R plot command and ggplot2 package)
- Bar Charts and Histograms
- Boxplots
- Line charts / time series
- Scatter plots
- Stem and leaf
- Mosaic
- Modifying plots
- Titles
- Legends
- Axis
- Plot Area
- Exporting a plot to a third party application
Requirements
- No prior experience with R is required
- Basic familiarity with programming or data analysis concepts is helpful but not necessary
Audience
- Data analysts and statisticians beginning with R
- Researchers and academics exploring data manipulation and visualization
- Professionals transitioning into data science roles
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Testimonials (4)
I feel more confident with coding now. I've never done it before but now I understand that it's not rocket science and I can do it when necessary.
Anna - Birmingham City University
Course - Foundation R
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Francis McGonigal - Birmingham City University
Course - Foundation R
The trainer was very concern about individual understanding.
Muhammad Surajo Sanusi - Birmingham City University
Course - Foundation R
I genuinely enjoyed the hands passed exercises.
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