Full course description
Term: 2025
Date & Time: Self-Paced
Location: Online Only
Instructors: Stephanie DeHart & Kate Miller
Presented By: Statistical Application and Innovations Group (SAIG) & Professional Development Network (PDN)
Description:
Are you a researcher who has recently collected data? Do you want help learning how to use a software package to analyze your data? If so, Basics of R in the SAIG Short Course Series is the right course for you! R is a free statistical software used for data analysis in a variety of fields. In this hands-on and interactive course, we will cover the following topics:
• Navigating RStudio
• Reading a data file into R
• Computing Descriptive Statistics
• Generating Graphics for Exploratory Data Analysis
• Exporting a file from R
No previous coding experience is required. Bring your laptop and please install R and RStudio on your machine by downloading from the following links:
https://www.r-project.org/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ (Links to an external site).
If you already have R and RStudio on your laptop, make sure they are the most up to date versions.