Learn to Program: R at NCI Online

Learn to Program: R at NCI Online

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

By NCI and Intersect Australia Partnership

Date and time

Mon, 22 May 2023 4:30 PM - Tue, 23 May 2023 7:45 PM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Brought to you by NCI in partnership with Intersect and delivered by Intersect.

Please use your university/institution email to register otherwise your ticket will be reallocated.

About this course

https://intersect.org.au/training/course/r101/

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.

This course is targeted at NOVICES to R programming.

You’ll learn:

  • 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

It will be run over two half days:

  • 9:30 am - 12:45 pm on 23 May 2023 (Sydney Time)
  • 9:30 am - 12:45 pm on 24 May 2023 (Sydney Time)

Prerequisites

No prior experience with programming is 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.

For more information about prerequisites and programming pathways for this course, please visit the course page on our website.

The Intersect approach to training

At Intersect, we deliver hands-on courses that target the day-to-day software and technology problems that researchers face.

For more information about this course and others, see our course catalogue, or visit Learn.intersect.org.au

For more information about how we allocate tickers and address no-shows, see our training policy.

Organised by

NCI and Intersect Australia Partnership

NCI

https://opus.nci.org.au/display/Help/NCI+Training+and+Educational+Events

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is Australia's leading high-performance data, storage and computing organisation, providing expert services to benefit all domains of science, government and industry. NCI aims to deliver to the Australian research sector the computational capability and enhanced services it needs to achieve transformational outcomes benefiting Australia's industry, environment, research sector, public policy formulation and Australian society more broadly.

Intersect

https://intersect.org.au/training

Intersect is a pivotal part of Australian research landscape. We 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 also a member of the Software Carpentry Foundation, the NCI (National Computational Infrastructure) and the AAF (Australian Access Federation).

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