Introduction to R

This is a theoretical-practical course to introduce researchers from different areas to the use of R programming language. This course is part of a module called AlwaysR (I to IV) organized by Cousteau Consultant Group. Each section is complementary to the following one.

Objectives

• Learn the elementary concepts for handling objects, functions, classes and methods.
• Achieve the ability to read and interpret the basic syntax of the language.
• Develop basic applications in R to solve common problems in the scientific field.

Course program

• Day 01:
  Introduction to R. Installation.
  Class and methods. Basic operations.

• Day 02:
  Vector, matrix, arrays, dataframes and list. How to generate it.

• Day 03:
  Indexing into a data structure.
  Packages in R. Instalation from CRAN and github.
  Reading files (excel, csv, txt, etc)

• Day 04:
  Conditional if statement Loop for and while

• Day 05:
  Descriptive statistic
  Basic plots and statistic tests.