R103: R for Social Scientists

R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language of choice for researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio development environment.

But getting started with R can be challenging, particularly if you’ve never programmed before. That’s where this introductory course comes in.

Join us for a live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Data Carpentry.

• Basic syntax and data types in R
• RStudio interface
• How to import CSV files into R
• The structure of data frames
• A brief introduction to data wrangling and data transformation
• How to calculate summary statistics
• A brief introduction to visualise data

No prior experience with programming needed to attend this course.

We strongly recommend attending the Start Coding without Hesitation: Programming Languages Showdown and Thinking like a computer: The Fundamentals of Programming webinars. Recordings of previously delivered webinars can be found here.