Introduction to R
- type: Technical Short Course
- semester: WS 2026/27
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place:
Online (Zoom)
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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