Statistical Analyses using R – hands-on workshop for beginners

The Graduate Student Development Program offers a Workshop on Statistical Analyses using R hands-on workshop for beginners

Date and Time

Session 1 (R scripts- writing and executing)	Sunday, 11 April 2021	5:00 PM 7:00 PM
Session 2 (Data manipulations and graphics with R)	Monday, 12 April 2021	5:00 PM 7:00 PM

Venue

Virtual Workshop on UAEU Zoom

Prerequisite: Watch video below prior to workshop

R introduction, data-type, structure

Target Audience

This workshop is primarily for Master or Doctorate students who are new to the world of R , but are interested to use this in their statistical analyses.

Workshop Leader

Dr. Sunil Mundra

Department of Biology, College of Science, UAE University

Email: sunilmundra@uaeu.ac.ae

Workshop Description

Scientific communities are generating a massive amount of data with enormous complexity, and need sophisticated statistical algorithms, graphics libraries and data mining techniques to effectively analyze their datasets. Moreover, the scientific community required an open-source framework under which a collection of tools could be created and shared by all for reuse freely. The R statistical package created in the early '90s is a programming language as well as a software environment for statistical computing with excellent libraries for statistical analyses, graphics and data mining.

R is freely available for download and designed to be highly extendable through well-documented libraries/packages, which are accessible for download and installation from R. R has a large and constantly expanding user base among researchers and nowadays it is very common to submit R scripts while publications for analyses reproducibility. However, R is not principally GUI driven and we may have to write a code to execute specific functions. For this, we need formal and basic learning of the R language and its data structures.

The goal of this workshop is

to teach the basic concepts that R programming depends on, and
to help the user to acquire a hand-on working experience of R, even if the user has no prior programming experience. The users can systematically learn R following the basic principles.

The following topics will be covered in this workshop.

Introducing R overview and installation of R packages
Data types and structure in R
R scripts writing and executing
Logical statements and control loops
Data manipulations with vectors and data frames
Graphics in R

Resources

Please ensure that your laptop has R installed. instruction will be sent prior to the workshop. Since it is an open source platform therefore R 4.0.3 can be installed following this website (https://www.r-project.org/ and https://cloud.r-project.org/).

In the course we will use R-studio 1.4.1103 (free version and more user friendly) that require R 4.0.3 to be installed on the laptop. Follow the link to install R-studio program.

For assistance, please contact the IT Specialist in your college or UAEU Helpdesk (7136111 or helpdesk@uaeu.ac.ae)