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What is R and why should I learn it?
R is a programming language originally designed for statistics. But as it grows and matures, modern R is utilized more for data process/ manipulation/ analyses/ visualization. Especially with health care data (not only bioinformatics data, but also clinical informatics data), R is gaining ground every day.
Target trainee for this class
You are a data analyst or a data manager/administrator. Most of your work is done manually by excel and you hope to improve this by some kind of programming.
Goal of this class
The focus of this course will be on data importing, manipulating, transforming, combining and summarizing data. After this 2-day training, you can read excel files in R, carry out basic data manipulation in R, and visualize data in an exploratory approach.
What you are learning?
- R Introduction / Background / History
- Rstudio
- Similarities between R and Excel
- How to read and write to csv, excel, and text files
- All about data frames
- Filter / Arrange / Select / Mutate / Summarize
- How to work with Dates
- Data Visualization
- Hands-on exercises
Note
This is for excel users who have not used R and have not been trained in any computer languages before. If you have taken any R courses from college/graduate school or if you know how to program, this class is not for you. In this case, please register for "R intro training” (see the Events Calendar for upcoming offerings).
This class requires attending 2 half days - 9 am - 12 pm 2019-04-23 (Tuesday) and 2019-05-02 (Thursday)
Contact hpcsupport@partners.org if you have questions.
Requirements
- Bring a laptop, either Windows or Mac.
- Request an ERISOne account in advance. Please fill the form ERISOne Account Request Form.
- Install SecureConnector from https://rc.partners.org/nac