5 August 2016 root

R (not!) for dummies

Dummies Books.

Dummies Books.

Course description

This course is based on the book “R for Dummies”.

It has similar content as Introduction to R course but in a more “relaxed” manner”:)

Part I: R You Ready?

Part II: Getting Down to Work in R

Part III: Coding in R

Part IV: Making the Data Talk

More specifically, you will learn:

Getting Data into R
Working with different data types
Getting your data out of R
Working with files and folders
Data manipulation
apply(), sapply() and similar functions in R
Describing distributions
Plotting histograms
Using frequencies or densities
Tracking correlations
Testing differences and relations
Testing normality
Simple linear models
Creating graphics with lattice
Working with ggplot2
Working with packages
R vs Excell
R and RStudio