Are you excited for your first semester? Have you heard that your degree will be a lot about programming and that you will be using a lot of R? If you don’t know R yet, don’t worry! We are happy to help, because we know how you feel. We offer an R-Bootcamp for beginners and those who would like to refresh the basics. You can find the program of the course below. We're looking forward to (e-)meeting you!
Day 1 : Introduction to Base R (09.09) |
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| Motivation – the role of R in the scope of the study programs |
| R – a language for statistical computing and data analysis |
| Console – assign variables and conduct simple calculations |
| The script – helps you, your friends, and colleagues to understand your code |
| Data structure – classes, data types and indexing |
| Your first data visualisations in R – wow? |
| Some small exercises |
Day 2 : Introduction to the Tidyverse (10.09) |
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| Tidyverse – welcome to the tidy philosophy of R |
| Tidyverse vs Base-R – two complementing approaches |
| The pipe - %>% |
| Dplyr – introduction to its essential verbs |
| Ggplot2 – the WOW of visualisation! |
| Practise, practise, practise... |