Training and Professional Development

  • 6/28 Free Introduction to R Workshops

    UConn’s Statistical Consulting Services will be offering two in-person Introduction to R workshops on June 28th and 30th. These workshops are aimed at participants interested in learning the basics of manipulating data in R and data visualization. No prior experience with R is required. These workshops will also be great for participants with previous R experience who want a refresher, or to pick up new skills. More details on course content are below.

    Cost and Registration
    Workshops are free
    , but please register online at: https://statsconsulting.uconn.edu/workshop-schedule/ .

    Format
    Workshops will be presented in-person. Please bring your own laptop. Details for installing R and Rstudio will be provided.

    Where & When
    All workshops will take place in Room 317 of the Innovation Partnership Building on Discovery Drive:
    Map Link: https://goo.gl/maps/WaVghkjiBQivBtMv6


     Introduction to R – Wed, 06/28 9:00am – 4:00pm
     Introduction to R – Thu, 06/30 9:00am – 4:00pm
    NOTE: Workshops cover the same material.

    Content

    • Navigating R & Rstudio
    • Using R as a calculator & number generator
    • Variable assignment & vectors
    • Working with dataframes in R
    • Wrangling data with dplyr
    • Plotting data in R with base R and ggplot2
    • (optionally) generating reports with Rmarkdown
    For more information, contact: Timothy Moore at timothy.e.moore@uconn.edu