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Course Outline
Introduction and preliminaries
- Making R more friendly, R and available GUIs
- The R environment
- Related software and documentation
- R and statistics
- Using R interactively
- An introductory session
- Getting help with functions and features
- R commands, case sensitivity, etc.
- Recall and correction of previous commands
- Executing commands from or diverting output to a file
- Data permanency and removing objects
Simple manipulations; numbers and vectors
- Vectors and assignment
- Vector arithmetic
- Generating regular sequences
- Logical vectors
- Missing values
- Character vectors
- Index vectors; selecting and modifying subsets of a data set
- Other types of objects
Objects, their modes and attributes
- Intrinsic attributes: mode and length
- Changing the length of an object
- Getting and setting attributes
- The class of an object
Ordered and unordered factors
- A specific example
- The function tapply() and ragged arrays
- Ordered factors
Arrays and matrices
- Arrays
- Array indexing. Subsections of an array
- Index matrices
- The array() function
- Mixed vector and array arithmetic. The recycling rule
- The outer product of two arrays
- Generalized transpose of an array
- Matrix facilities
- Matrix multiplication
- Linear equations and inversion
- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Singular value decomposition and determinants
- Least squares fitting and the QR decomposition
- Forming partitioned matrices, cbind() and rbind()
- The concatenation function, (), with arrays
- Frequency tables from factors
Lists and data frames
- Lists
- Constructing and modifying lists
- Concatenating lists
- Data frames
- Making data frames
- attach() and detach()
- Working with data frames
- Attaching arbitrary lists
- Managing the search path
Reading data from files
- The read.table()function
- The scan() function
- Accessing builtin datasets
- Loading data from other R packages
- Editing data
Probability distributions
- R as a set of statistical tables
- Examining the distribution of a set of data
- One- and two-sample tests
Grouping, loops and conditional execution
- Grouped expressions
- Control statements
- Conditional execution: if statements
- Repetitive execution: for loops, repeat and while
Writing your own functions
- Simple examples
- Defining new binary operators
- Named arguments and defaults
- The '...' argument
- Assignments within functions
- More advanced examples
- Efficiency factors in block designs
- Dropping all names in a printed array
- Recursive numerical integration
- Scope
- Customizing the environment
- Classes, generic functions and object orientation
Statistical models in R
- Defining statistical models; formulae
- Contrasts
- Linear models
- Generic functions for extracting model information
- Analysis of variance and model comparison
- ANOVA tables
- Updating fitted models
- Generalized linear models
- Families
- The glm() function
- Nonlinear least squares and maximum likelihood models
- Least squares
- Maximum likelihood
- Some non-standard models
Graphical procedures
- High-level plotting commands
- The plot() function
- Displaying multivariate data
- Display graphics
- Arguments to high-level plotting functions
- Low-level plotting commands
- Mathematical annotation
- Hershey vector fonts
- Interacting with graphics
- Using graphics parameters
- Permanent changes: The par() function
- Temporary changes: Arguments to graphics functions
- Graphics parameters list
- Graphical elements
- Axes and tick marks
- Figure margins
- Multiple figure environment
- Device drivers
- PostScript diagrams for typeset documents
- Multiple graphics devices
- Dynamic graphics
Packages
- Standard packages
- Contributed packages and CRAN
- Namespaces
Requirements
Good understanding of statistics.
21 Hours
Delivery Options
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- Customisation of the learning experience to achieve your goals -
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- Practical hands-on exercises containing data / scenarios recognisable to the learners
- Training scheduled on a date of your choice
- Delivered online, onsite/classroom or hybrid by experts sharing real world experience
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Testimonials (3)
We had many varying levels of skill in the class which created the need for more thorough explanations at times to ensure understanding. Pace and structure was generally pleasant.
Gary Munn - Vodacom
Course - Introduction to R
Hands on examples were the most helpful.
Sean Kaukas
Course - Introduction to R
I genuinely enjoyed working 1:1 with Gunner.
