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
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)
Registration
This workshop is only available to those who registered in February 2021.
