Anthony Damico

Introduction to Statistical Computing with the R Programming Language

This hands-on workshop mixes powerpoint-free discussion of open source R with guided coding examples for data analysis.  Bring your laptop!!

Cleveland Park Library (1st Floor Meeting Room)

This face-to-face seminar outlines how to get started with the R programming languageThis introductory session equips attendees with a broad &amp; unintimidating overview of how to approach quantitative research tasks on a wide variety of topics including data science, geospatial analysis, graphical visualization, epidemiology &amp; clinical trials, econometrics &amp; actuarial science, database engineering, experiment design, natural language processing, medical imaging, <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/" title="https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">and many more</a>! Learning Outcomes<ul><li><a href="https://r-project.org/" title="https://r-project.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">R programming</a> introduction with hands-on coding and scripting - beginners are welcome!!</li><li>Familiarity with the open source community that built this powerful computing technology, with comparisons to a range of alternatives like Python, C++, JavaScript, Stata, HTML, Microsoft Excel</li><li>Understanding the <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/" title="https://cran.r-project.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CRAN package ecosystem</a> like <a href="https://r-datatable.com/" title="https://r-datatable.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">data.table</a>, the <a href="https://www.tidyverse.org/" title="https://www.tidyverse.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">tidyverse</a>, superfast SQL <a href="https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/r.html" title="https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/clients/r.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">duckdb</a></li></ul>

Agenda

Attendees welcome to arrive prior to the 6 p.m. meeting start time for assistance installing & configuring R!

R Setup Help & Troubleshooting

What does free & open source software really mean, who created the R project, who uses it, and why?

Discussion of Statistical Computing with the R Programming Language

How do R users interact with the windows on the screen, save our work, share methods, & publish results?

Hands-on Session and Getting Started with R

Where do interested individuals seek help, troubleshoot, advance our own discipline-specific R expertise?

Conversation about Learning Resources and Additional Uses of R

Which R commands access the rows & columns of a table of data faster than point-and-click spreadsheets?

Hands-on Session with R Coding and Scripting

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