This is a command based course, not related to any specific area of research. 

This program will go through the basics in R including types of objects, subsetting from data and data input and output methods.

For an extended Introductory R course, we offer a two-days course "Foundations in R" : Firstly introducing participants to the basics of R, prior to progressing to the use of widely popular tidyverse package for data management and manipulation and data visualisation using ggplot2 package.

For a more in depth course on programming explore: Introduction to Programming Using R.

Course Tutor: Krupa Shukla

Entry requirements: No experience or previous knowledge to R is required to attend this course. 

Early Bird rate is available for up to 4 weeks before the session runs.

Contact us on stathelp@imperial.ac.uk for any queries.

Course Content

  • Understanding R
  • Getting started with R - Command prompt, R Working directory
  • The R Objects – Vectors, matrices and factors
    • Attributes
    • Subsetting from R Objects
    • Handling Missing values
    • Manipulating and handling Data
  • Lists and data.frames
  • R Environment - R Workspace and R History
  • Input and output
    • Reading and Writing Data
    • Scripts and Source
  • Getting basic statistics of data
  • Data visualisation using R Graphs
  • R packages
    • Setting Repositories, Installing and updating packages
  • Basic Programming components
  • Writing functions

Fees and dates for 2024-2025

Course Fees

EARLY BIRD RATE

£297.00: Imperial College only.

£414.00: External rate.

STANDARD RATE

£330.00: Imperial College only.

£460.00: External rate

* Please refer to Cancellation Policy before registering

Dates

  • Tuesday 01 October 2024

  • Thursday 08 May 2025

  • Wednesday 25 June 2025

Please CLICK HERE to be redirected to the registration forms and booking links.

Time and Location

The course will run face-to-face with an option to join via Microsoft Teams. 

Exact details will be sent a week prior to the course date.