Course details
This course of R-Tutorials is based on the free R Basics course. It contains valuable information which you can also use for this course. I highly recommend to take the free Basics course first.
R is increasingly becoming popular.
People of nearly any discipline are submitting packages, ever enlarging the features of this software. This can make R a powerful tool in your quantitative toolbox.
By watching this tutorial you will get a very solid foundation of R. By using this foundation, you can later on branch out to your specific discipline and produce convincing analysis and graphs.
While planing this course I was using the Pareto 80/20 principle. I filtered for the most useful items in the R language which will give you a quick and efficient learning experience.
Learning R will help you conduct your projects and on the long run it is an invaluable skill which will enhance your career.
Your journey will start with the theoretical background of object and data types. You will then learn how to handle the most common types of objects in R. Much emphasis is put on loops in R since this is a crucial part of statistical programming. It is also shown how the apply family of functions can be used to do loops.
In the graphics section you will learn how you can create and tailor your graphs. As an example we are creating boxplots, histograms and piecharts. Since the graphs interface is quite the same for all types of graphs, this will give you a solid foundation.
This tutorial is your first step to benefit from this open source software.
What R you waiting for?
Martin
Updated on 08 November, 2015
