Short courses

Summary

Data is everywhere, and being able to understand and interpret it is of increasing importance in our modern world. 

This course will introduce you to R: an open-source, flexible and powerful statistical software used to manipulate, analyse and visualise data. R is used extensively in both academia (e.g. in Statistics and Psychology) and in industry. R is heavily used in genetics, epidemiology, manufacturing and finance, as well as by data analysts and research programmers. 

Using the RStudio interface, you will learn how to:  

• wrangle data: to combine and extract information of interest, and to clean up data into the format required for further analysis 
• perform descriptive analyses to extract summary information and to visualise data in academic-standard plots 
• interpret common error messages and use in-built facilities to debug your code  

The course aims to provide you with the starter skills and confidence to continue developing your R skills independently after the conclusion of the course.