We introduce R programming language and outline the benefits of learning R. We give a brief tour of basic concepts and tasks: variables, objects, functions, basic statistics, visualization, and data import/export. We showcase a practical example demonstrating statistical analysis.
Goals of this webinar:
- Why should one use/learn R?
- How to install R/Rstudio
- Learn about R basics: variables, programming, functions
- Learn about the R package ecosystem that extends its capabilities
- See a basic statistical analysis example
- Learn about additional resources
Material for webinar
- Slides for talk (HTML format).
- Source code used to generate the slides(RMD format).
- Resources links offering a variety of resources(MD format).
- Script example used to generate the script example (R format).
- Basic statistical analysis example notebook to generate the analysis example (ipynb format).
- Script timeline source code used to generate the timeline plot (R format).
- Script flat violin plot source code used to generate the flat violin plot (R format) (original source).