R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis at USYD Westmead
Date and time
Location
USYD Westmead
WECC Flexible Teaching Room 4 Hawkesbury Road Westmead, NSW 2145 AustraliaDescription
- Please bring your own laptop. The venue is not fitted with Desktop PCs.
- Cost: Free to Researchers and PhD students at the University of Sydney.
- Proudly presented in association with Sydney Informatics Hub.
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. The goal of this lesson is to teach novice programmers to write modular code and best practices for using R for data analysis. The emphasis of these materials is to give attendees a strong foundation in the fundamentals of R, and to teach best practices for scientific computing: breaking down analyses into modular units, task automation, and encapsulation.
Note that this workshop will focus on teaching the fundamentals of the programming language R, and will not teach statistical analysis.
Join us for this 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 in R
- Basic syntax, control structures and data types in R
- How to load external data into R
- Ways to visualise data
- Ways to manipulate 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.
For more information about this course and others, see our course catalogue, or visit Learn.intersect.org.au
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