Workshop: Basic R for beginners

Basic R for beginners (3 lessons)

Date: 16 Jun, 23 Jun and 30 Jun

Time: 14:30 - 17:00

Target Audience: All Students

Medium of Instruction: English

Pre-requisite: Basic programming knowledge

What you will learn

• Familiarize with installation and user interface of RStudio (integrated development environment (IDE) for the R programming language)
• Familiarize with fundamental R programming skills, which are essential skills for data science professionals with R
• Load and save data in R with various file formats, and familiarize with managing data frames which is the most common way of storing data in R and, generally, is the data structure most often used for data analyses.

Course outline

(1) Lesson 1

• Overview of R programming language
• Installation and introduction to RStudio IDE
• R Packages
• Variables & Data Types
• Basic string operations
• Basic operators

(2) Lesson 2

• Data structures
• Control structures
  • Decision making
  • Loops
• Functions

(3) Lesson 3

• Load/Save Data in R
• Managing data frame

(4) Practical coursework throughout the workshop