Introduction to `R` software
- Start Date: May 13, 2025
- End Date: May 16, 2025
- Time: 9am-12pm Pacific
- City: Online
- Instructor: Ayla Pearson
- Registration open
Course Description
An introduction to the programming language R. This course will provide tips and tricks to programming in R, installation of R packages and libraries, introduction to base R objects and data types, assign a value to a name, identify functions, for loops, and conditional statements, read in data from common file types (csv/xlsx), and perform mathematical operations and linear regression.
This course spans four half-days. Students are not expected to have any previous experience in R or any other programming languages, this is a true intro level course.
Course objectives:
- Learn fundamental concepts of the base R language
- Feel comfortable navigating and using RStudio
- Read in data from external files (excel)
- Perform various operations on your own data (mean, max, linear regression)
- Gain confidence when working with data frames of data
Note: There is an additional Intro to R course taking place May 27-30, 2025 and her second level R course called Data Manipulation and Visualization taking place October 21-24, 2025. See the upcoming events list to find these course webpages.
Our Instructor
Ayla Pearson is a Computational Biologist at Poisson Consulting Ltd. who has a passion for the intersection between data and resource management policy. During her Master of Data Science, she was a Women in Data Science (WiDS) ambassador.
The Student Page will be here. This page will be password is protected and provide students with easy access to all course materials needed including class recordings for a limited period of time.
Preparation and what to bring
You’ll need a stable internet connection and your own working computer
- No prior programming experience required
- A free account with RStudio Cloud
- Computer with reliable internet connection, and equip with video camera and a speaker/mic adequate enough to clearly communicate via the Zoom video conferencing platform.
- Zoom. More info on system requirements for Zoom can be found here.
What is included with this course?
- Access to online materials
- R functions summary sheet
- Registrants will have access to course recordings for 1 month before they are deleted
Registration
Registration includes free access to the cloud version of Posit (RStudio), the course workbook, some data sets, and course recordings for one month.
Members: $435*
Non-members: $480
Limited class size of 12 people, register immediately to secure your spot.
*Memberships may be purchased and renewed while you register. More about membership here.
Note: When registration fills you may request to be placed on the notification list should an extra seat open up in the course, and/or to be notified of the next time we offer this course. To join this list, please email Hailey: office@cmiae.org
Thank you!
This course is offered in partnership with the team at Poisson Consulting.
