Introduction to R - TeSS (Training eSupport System)

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Introduction to R

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R is a popular language and environment that allows powerful and fast manipulation of data, offering many statistical and graphical options. This course aims to introduce R as a tool for statistics and graphics, with the main aim being to become comfortable with the R environment. It will focus on entering and manipulating data in R and producing simple graphs. A few functions for basic statistics will be briefly introduced, but statistical functions will not be covered in detail.

Course Content

What is R
Getting familiar with the R console
Entering Data
Manipulating data
Importing data files
Creating Graphs (boxplots, barplots, scatterplots, line graphs)

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Licence: Other (Non-Commercial)

Keywords: R programming, Babraham Institute

Authors: Laura Biggins, Simon Andrews

Scientific topics: Software engineering