Workshop: Basic R for beginners
Workshop/ Training/ Webinar

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Date
16 - 30 Jun 2022
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Organiser
ITS
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Time
14:30 - 17:00
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Venue
Online (MS Teams)
Enquiry
IT HelpCentre (Hotline) 2766 5900 / (WhatsApp/ WeChat) 6577 9669
Summary
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