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Introduction to R

The introduction to R programming course will help you understand and master the basics of R. The course will cover the basic syntax of R enabling you to undertake your own first data analysis using R.

What you'll learn

You will learn how to get going in R from the begining, understand file formats, basic R syntax from data objects to functions, graphics. and learn using text editors to write code. You will learn how to read files, use symbols and assignments and iterate simple loops. The course is suitable for complete beginners and no prior R programming knowledge is assumed.

Come enjoy the motivating atmosphere, learning with your peers while you discover the possibilities of R.

Course Content

  • Getting started with R
  • Installing, starting and stopping R
  • The R Console
  • R and statistics
  • R and the window system
  • File Operations and file formats
  • Writing code and text editors
  • Basic R syntax
  • Reading files
  • Symbols and assignment

 

Loops

  • Sequences
  • Simple Loops(iteration)

Vectors

  • Numeric vectors
  • Special values
  • Numeric summaries

Text

  • Text Processing
  • Regular expressions
  • Search, replace, split, paste

Reading Data

  • Data Frames
  • Matrices and data frames and Lists
  • Free-format Input
  • Fixed-Format Input
  • Printing Data and Summaries
  • Plotting Data
  • Data processing

Dates

  • Dates
  • Classes and generic functions

Linear Models

  • Fitting a Model
  • Examining a Fit
  • Extracting Results
  • Factors and Covariates
  • Regression Splines

Generalized Linear Models

  • Variance and Link Families
  • Logistic Regression
  • Updating Models
  • Model Selection

Data Structures

  • Data structures
  • Subsetting
  • Assigning to subsets

Data Manipluation

  • Apply functions

Graphics

  • Scatterplots
  • Exporting Graphics
  • Boxplots
  • Histograms
  • Density Plots
  • Text Plots
  • Faceting
  • Common Aesthetics

Upcoming Dates

LocationDatePrice
LagosMay 6th, 2024₦235,000
AccraJune 3rd, 2024C6000
AbujaJuly 15th, 2024₦235,000
LagosAugust 5th, 2024₦235,000

Delivery Methods

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