Getting Started with R Course (1 Day)

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Time:  9:15AM - 4:15PM
Price:  $1,650
Bookings: Please email enquiries@solutionmetrics.com.au or call +61 2 9233 6888

We also offer the course online or in-house

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Course Description

Course provides users with the knowledge to get the most out of R. Participants will learn how to use R efficiently & productively for data analysis, graphics & reporting.

Course presentations are frequently backed up by practical sessions. Lunch, refreshments and course materials are included.

Who will Benefit?

All new & relatively new R users + existing users of R that are interested in the latest functions to improve efficiency. This course has largely been developed with input from customers, through experience in providing technical support, training & consulting. 

Recommended Prerequisites

No experience in R is necessary. The course is not intended as an introductory statistics course. It is recommended that course participants have an elementary knowledge of statistics/data analysis and some familiarity with Windows or Mac.

Course Outline

• Introduction to R
• Accessing Help
• Creating Working Directories for different projects.
• R Language Objects & Classes
• Data Import/Export
• Data Manipulation including Stack, Subset & Merge
• Data Analysis & Graphics
  - Histograms, Box Plots, Bar Charts, Scatter Plots
  - Changing symbols, colours, style of points, axes, range etc
  - Labelling & Identifying Points. Adding Titles etc
  - Multiple Graphs on a single graphsheet.
  - Plotting Subsets of Rows
  - Adding points, lines, legends to existing plots
• Exporting Graphics
• Statistical Models in R
  - Linear Regression
  - Non-linear Regression

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