[Colloquium] RCC Presents: Introduction to R

[Benjamin Recchie]

Please forward this workshop announcement to your faculty, students, and colleagues who may be interested.


Introduction to R

Lian Huan Ng, Instructor, Research Computing Center

Thursday, February 12, and Thursday, February 19, 2015, 2:00–4:00 p.m. | Kathleen A. Zar Room, John Crerar Library

This workshop is a two-part series on an introduction to the statistical software R.

Session 1 (February 12): Attendees will gain hands-on experience working with an example data set using R while learning about the basic features of R.  Topics to be covered include: using R as a calculator, common data types (vector, matrix, list, data frame), importing and exporting data in R, and some basic statistical analyses.  No prior experience with R is required.

Session 2 (February 19): We will continue from where we have left off from the first workshop.  Topics to be covered include: additional basic statistical analyses, plotting, the "apply" family, using external packages, and basic programming syntax (if time permits).  Attendance at the previous first workshop is not required but you should be comfortable with some basic R commands, such as how to import a data set into R as a data frame.

Prerequisites: Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop to participate in the hands-on session and have access to both R and the RStudio software.  If you already have access to an RCC account, then you can use the RStudio software via RCC's ThinLinc<https://rcc.uchicago.edu/docs/connecting/index.html#connecting-with-thinlinc>.  Otherwise, you can download and install the stand-alone R<http://cran.rstudio.com/> and RStudio<http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/> software onto your laptop prior to attending the workshop.

Register here<https://training.uchicago.edu/course_detail.cfm?course_id=1547>.




Benjamin Recchie
Communications, Outreach, and Project Manager, Research Computing Center
The University of Chicago
6030 S. Ellis Ave., Room 130
Chicago, IL 60637
E: bcrecchi at uchicago.edu
T: 773.834.5546
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