R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing.
This 2-hour workshop will cover the foundations of R programming including R’s building blocks, functionals, reading and writing data in R, data wrangling, and visualization and analysis of models. This course will serve as an introduction to R for new users with a programming background and empower existing R users to do more with the software for data analysis. Subjects covered will include:
Overview of R’s data structures
- Functionals in R
- Data wrangling and manipulation in R
- Visualization and analysis of data models
The contents on this site are:
- R Programming Slides: workshop slides
- R exercise.R: Application of concepts we learned in class
- case study 1.R: Advanced application of lists, matrices, subsetting, and string parsing
- data: data for case study 1
- case study 2: Reading and writing in data files
- case study 3: A data modeling exercise using broom