Introduction to R

In this introduction to R workshop, participants will be taught the basics of this open source language. Topics covered in this workshop includes:

• Help tools
• Importing / exporting data
• Data management
• Descriptive and exploratory statistics
• Graphics
• Common statistical analyses

Registration is free and open to all University of Waterloo faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students. No programming experience is assumed.

There will be both lecture and hands-on computer work using R. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop with R and RStudio installed.