R Statistical Software Training

Objective

To provide an introduction to R Statistical Software. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. You can get more information about R here.

Who will benefit

Anyone using or intending using R and would like to understand more about the software.

Course duration: 1 day

Detailed Course Outline:

What is R?

  • History and background, Language and concepts
  • What can you do with R?
  • Objects and data manipulation in R

R basics for statistics

  • Loading data
  • Summarising, plotting and modeling
  • Reporting results

Graphics in R

  • Basic graphics: drawing, adjusting, refining, printing
  • Additional graphics (grid, ggplot2, vcd, iplots)
  • Trellis graphics (lattice)

Functional support in R

  • Combinatorics and mathematical functions
  • Transformations
  • Subsetting
  • Probability distributions
  • Statistical tests

Statistical Analyses with R

  • Linear models, GLMs

Advanced statistical modelling with R

  • Survival analysis; Classification and clustering

R Packages

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The R Environment

  • Cran and Bioconductor
  • Help files, Documentation, Vignettes, Mailing lists
  • Coding in R. Links to databases