Learn to Program: R at Deakin Online

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Learn to Program: R at Deakin Online

Learn about the fundamental concepts in programming using R and apply them to analyse a sample research dataset.

By Intersect Australia

Date and time

Mon, 3 Jul 2023 4:30 PM - Tue, 4 Jul 2023 7:30 PM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Important:

This course takes place over 2 days. The dates and times are as follows:

  • Day 1: Tuesday, July 4 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM AEST
  • Day 2: Wednesday, July 5 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM AEST

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.

We teach using RStudio, which allows program code, results, visualisations and documentation to be blended seamlessly.

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.

You'll learn:

  • Introduction to the RStudio interface for programming
  • Basic syntax and data types in R
  • How to load external data into R
  • Creating functions (FUNCTIONS)
  • Repeating actions and analysing multiple data sets (LOOPS)
  • Making choices (IF STATEMENTS – CONDITIONALS)
  • Ways to visualise data in R

Prerequisites:

No prior experience with programming needed to attend this course.

We strongly recommend attending the Start Coding without Hesitation: Programming Languages Showdown and Thinking like a computer: The Fundamentals of Programming webinars. Recordings of previously delivered webinars can be found here.

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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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