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R for Absolute Beginners

OPEN TO:
-Faculty -Graduate Students -Postdocs -Staff -Undergraduate Students

An introduction to R, a commonly-used language for data and statistical analysis and visualization.

This introductory workshop aims to provide a quick “swimming” lesson to students, scholars, practitioners, and researchers who want to dive into the world of R.

R is a free and open-source programming language that is widely used for data and statistical analysis and data visualization. RStudio is a free user interface, which we will use to write and run an R script and interact with our data. In the course of this hour-long workshop, participants will learn to:

  1. Create an R script in the RStudio environment.
  2. Write basic R to perform mathematical operations and print out a greeting.
  3. Annotate code using comments so that we can share our work.
  4. Load in a dataset, subset data, and explore data types.

This workshop is for those who are curious about tools for analyzing or visualizing their data, or if they've heard about R and want to know what it’s all about. In advance of the session, please install the R programming language and RStudio. No programming experience necessary – just bring yourself and a laptop!

DATE
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
TIME
7:00PM - 8:00PM
LOCATION
Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship // Hesburgh Library 2nd Floor // Consultation Room 247
PRESENTER
Summer Mengarelli
CATEGORIES
CDS | Data Use & Analysis Workshops CDS | Programming Workshops CDS | Research Data Services Workshops

Registration is required. There are 13 seats available.

Contact Info

Summer Mengarelli
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Center for Digital Scholarship

Hesburgh Library–2nd Floor NE
cds.library.nd.edu
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Julie C. Vecchio '04, MPH, MLIS
Co-Interim Director
jvecchio@nd.edu
(574) 631-4900