Introduction to Programming with R at USYD Camperdown

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Introduction to Programming with R at USYD Camperdown

By Intersect Australia

Date and time

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM AEST

Location

USYD Camperdown

Fisher Training Room 210, Fisher Library The University of Sydney Camperdown, NSW 2006 Australia

Description

  • Cost: Free to Researchers and PhD students at the University of Sydney.
  • Proudly presented in association with Sydney Informatics.

Why do this course?

R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language of choice for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio development environment and the Shiny web application framework.

But getting started with R can be challenging, particularly if you've never programmed before. That's where this introductory course comes in.

Join us for a live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation (software-carpentry.org).

You’ll learn:

  • Programming concepts and techniques.

  • Basic syntax, control structures and data types in R.

  • How to load external data into R.

  • Ways to visualise data.

  • How to use factors for category data.

  • Best practices for writing code in R.

The Intersect approach to training

At Intersect, we work closely with our member universities to develop and deliver training that targets the day-to-day software and technology problems that researchers face. We deliver hands-on courses in a relaxed setting with knowledgeable, helpful trainers who are themselves researchers and who know how researchers work.

Download the course outline.

For more information visit Learn.intersect.org.au

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Intersect is a pivotal part of Australian research landscapeWe provide robust, innovative services and collaborative technology to support world-class research at our member organisations and in the wider research community

Intersect delivers data storage, compute and analysis platforms, custom engineering, expert consulting and training programs to thousands of researchers every year

Intersect works closely with the ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons) built from ANDS, Nectar, and RDS

Intersect is a member of the Software Carpentry Foundation, the NCI (National Computational Infrastructure) and the AAF (Australian Access Federation)

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