Data Manipulation and Visualisation using R

Intermediate R Course

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Course Description

It has been said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data. In this course we introduce some relatively-new additions to the R programming language; dplyr and ggplot2. In combination these provide a powerful toolkit to make the process of manipulating and visualising data easy and intuitive.

Course Prequisites

We will assume that you have basic familarity with R and are familiar with vectors, data frames, variables and using functions. We have a crash course that covers these topics

Several Online videos are available that cover these materials. For example

Topics Covered

  • How R enables reproducible research
  • What constitues a tidy dataset
  • "Piping" commands together to form a workflow
  • Subseting and filtering datasets using dplyr
  • Producing summary statistics from a dataset
  • Joining datasets using dplyr
  • The grammar of graphics approach to plotting used in ggplot2
  • Producing publication-ready graphics using ggplot2

    • Course Data

    Please click on this link to download all the files required to run the examples in the course:- CLICK HERE

    Software

    You will need an updated version of R and RStudio Desktop. Please check this page to make sure you have the correct versions of the software

    Schedule

  • Course Introduction
  • Introduction to dplyr
  • Writing analysis workflows in R
  • Summarising and Combining data
  • Plotting data with ggplot2
  • Extra (optional) exercises on dplyr and ggplot2

    • Software

    You will need an updated version of R and RStudio Desktop. Please check this page to make sure you have the correct versions of the software

    Useful Resources