Workshop: An Introduction to R

Presented by

Dr Owen Jones & Dr Andrew Robinson, University of Melbourne

Monday, 23^rd November 2009, 9:15 am - 4:45 pm

Melbourne

Nanson Laboratory, 2^nd floor, Richard Berry Building,
The University of Melbourne

 - A workshop for statisticians, epidemiologists, public health researchers, PhD and Masters students -

 

About R

R is a powerful statistics package that is available for free (web page: http://www.r-project.org/). It is becoming one of the most commonly used packages amongst statisticians worldwide, and is also being used by non-specialists (researchers, epidemiologists and students). It has tools to run any standard statistical analysis, and new tools on the latest statistical methods are added to its repository every day. Over 1600 of these bespoke tools are now available.

R also has an excellent graphics ability and is able to create figures in journal-ready formats. Its one downfall is that it uses a command line, and hence getting started in R involves a significant amount of initial effort for those with limited programming ability. After this initial hurdle the rewards from using R become obvious, and it is likely to become the dominant statistical package in academia within the next decade.

Topics Covered

This course will cover the basics of R and is suitable for someone who has never used it before. We will cover:

-       Introduction to R

-       Accessing R's help files

-       Scripting

-       Reading data into R

-       Manipulating data within R

-       Saving and loading data

-       Using R's libraries

-       Obtaining simple descriptions of data

-       Creating a journal-ready plot

-       Running a linear regression analysis

 

Course Location:

Nanson Laboratory, Richard Berry Building, The University of Melbourne

A map of the Parkville campus can be found at: http://www.pb.unimelb.edu.au/CampusMaps/Parkville.pdf

 

Parking

Free car parking is not available on campus.  There is easy access by public transport.  Information about car parking around the University can be found at: http://www.pb.unimelb.edu.au/parking/whereyoushouldpark/visitorparking.html

 

Cost for the 1-Day Course

SSAI Members:                       $225

Non-Members:                       $450

SSAI Student Members:           $200

Student Non-Members:           $225

For non-members the workshop fee includes a complimentary one-year membership with the SSAI.

Morning and afternoon teas will be provided; lunch will not be provided.

 

Workshop Registration

Online registration is available here.

To download a registration form, please click here. Non-member students wishing to take advantage of the student rate need to use the hard-copy registration form and fax it together with their student ID to SSAI, Fax No. 02 6251 0204.

Members need to be logged in with their username and password to take advantage of the member rates.

 

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received prior to 16th November 2009 will be refunded in full. After this date, no  part of the registration fee will be refunded. However, registrations are transferable within the same organisation. Please advise any changes to eo@statsoc.org.au.