Introduction to R

  • type: Technical Short Course
  • semester: WS 2026/27
  • place:

    Online (Zoom)

  • time:

    November 6 + 13, 2026
    9.30 am - 4.30 pm

  • lecturer:

    Nicolas Attalides

  • ects: 1

The course is structured to cover the following topics:

  • Getting started with R and Rstudio
  • R packages, functions, help and history
  • R objects, data types and factors
  • Object dimension, sequences, for loops and data frames
  • Load data into R
  • Export data from R
  • Data transformations, manipulations and workflow
  • Group and summarise data
  • Working with characters and dates
  • Introduction to visualisations, plots and {ggplot2}
  • Customising plots