About this course
R is one of the leading programming languages for statistics and data analysis. In this introductory class, participants will learn practical skills necessary for reading data into R from external sources, manipulating the data, and visualizing it. The course will also cover other basic programming concepts as they are implemented in R, including data types and structures, variable assignment, functions, and packages.
What you’ll learn in this course
- Overview
- Why use R?
- R Projects in RStudio
- Variables and assignment
- Functions
- Types, structures, and operators
- Packages
- Working with data frames in the tidyverse
- Key packages
- Reading and writing data
- Selecting, arranging, filtering, and mutating
- Counting and summarizing
- The pipe operator
- Joining and pivoting
- Exploratory data analysis (EDA)
- Script structure
- Plots and tables
- Next steps
- Getting help
- Some future learner goals
- Lab
Click the green button to be put on the wait list. You will receive an email the next time the class is offered (and seats are available). You must seek your supervisor’s approval to attend any Data Academy courses.