Course overview
This interactive R course for beginners teaches fundamental data analysis skills and helps you begin your journey to become a successful data professional.
In this course, you’ll learn to use basic arithmetic; write code using R syntax; and work with different data types, values, and vectors in the data analysis workflow, including data exploration, manipulation, analysis, and visualization with R.
Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll write code and get feedback directly in the browser.
Key skills
- Executing calculations using arithmetic operators
- Performing basic R operations, such as creating and naming variables
- Completing the data workflow
- Writing computer programs using R
Course outline
Introduction to Data Analysis in R [5 lessons]
Introduction to Programming in R 1h
Lesson Objectives- Implement R programming syntax basics
- Identify data types
- Perform calculations using common arithmetic operators
Arithmetic Expressions and Variables in R 1h
Lesson Objectives- Perform calculations using arithmetics operators
- Save values using variables
- Update variables
- Process numerical data
Logical Expressions in R 1h
Lesson Objectives- Perform calculations using relational operators
- Perform calculations using logical operators
- Employ logical expression
Data Manipulation with R: Basics 1h
Lesson Objectives- Identify why tidyverse packages are essential for data analysis
- Import a dataset in R
- Explore the dataset
- Visualize the data
Project: Install RStudio 1h
Lesson Objectives- Install RStudio
- Practice programming
- Improve your data analysis workflow using RStudio
Projects in this course
Project: Install RStudio
Learn how to install and use RStudio, a free and open-source development environment for R.
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