An Introduction to ‘R’: free software for statistical analysis

One day course by Martin Law & Francesca Gasparoni – MRC Biostatistics Unit

Course venue

Seminar Rooms, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, adjacent to Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Course aims

R is a free, popular language and environment that allows powerful and fast manipulation of data, offering many statistical and graphical options.

This course aims to introduce R as a tool for statistics and graphics, with the main aim being to become comfortable with the R environment. It will focus on entering and manipulating data in R and producing simple graphs. A few functions for basic statistics will be briefly introduced, but statistical functions will not be covered in detail.

Target audience

No experience with R or any other statistical software is required.

Knowledge of a basic course in statistics would be beneficial, but not necessary.

Software

Please bring your own laptop and install R (http://cran.rstudio.com/ )and Rstudio (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/) for practicals.