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R Programming Introduction

Discover the essential R tools you need to know for data analysis, even if you have no programming experience. This course will teach you how to use R to import, analyze, and publish your data results. Perfect for non-programmers looking to gain a basic understanding of R.

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  • 18 and older
  • $995
  • 11400 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
  • 13 hours & 30 minutes over 2 sessions
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  • ONLC Los Angeles (West) @ 11400 W Olympic Blvd Ste 200, Los Angeles, CA 90064
  • 13 hours & 30 minutes over 2 sessions
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Description

What you'll learn in this programming languages training:

Learn how to perform data analysis with the R language and software environment, even if you have little or no programming experience. With the tutorials in this class, you’ll learn how to use the essential R tools you need to know to analyze data, including data types and programming concepts. The also shows you real data analysis in action by covering everything from importing data to publishing your results.

Audience

This class is for the non-programmer who wants to gain a basic understanding of R.

Prerequisites

No prior programming experience is necessary. Some background in statistics is helpful, but not necessary.

Course Objectives

  • Write a simple R program, and discover what the language can do
  • Use data types such as vectors, arrays, lists, data frames, and strings
  • Execute code conditionally or repeatedly with branches and loops
  • learn R add-on packages

Course Outline

The R Language

1. Introduction

  • What Is R?
  • Installing R
  • Choosing an IDE
  • Emacs + ESS
  • Eclipse/Architect
  • RStudio
  • Revolution-R
  • Live-R
  • Other IDEs and Editors
  • Your First Program
  • How to Get Help in R
  • Installing Extra Related Software

2. A Scientific Calculator

  • Mathematical Operations and Vectors
  • Assigning Variables
  • Special Numbers
  • Logical Vectors
  • Summary
  • Test Your Knowledge: Quiz
  • Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

3. Inspecting Variables and Your Workspace

  • Classes
  • Different Types of Numbers
  • Other Common Classes
  • Checking and Changing Classes
  • Examining Variables
  • The Workspace

4. Vectors, Matrices, and Arrays

  • Vectors
  • Sequences
  • Lengths
  • Names
  • Indexing Vectors
  • Vector Recycling and Repetition
  • Matrices and Arrays
  • Creating Arrays and Matrices
  • Rows, Columns, and Dimensions
  • Row, Column, and Dimension Names
  • Indexing Arrays
  • Combining Matrices
  • Array Arithmetic

5. Lists and Data Frames

  • Lists
  • Creating Lists
  • Atomic and Recursive Variables
  • List Dimensions and Arithmetic
  • Indexing Lists
  • Converting Between Vectors and Lists
  • Combining Lists
  • NULL
  • Pairlists
  • Data Frames
  • Creating Data Frames
  • Indexing Data Frames
  • Basic Data Frame Manipulation

6. Environments and Functions

  • Environments
  • Functions
  • Creating and Calling Functions
  • Passing Functions to and from Other Functions
  • Variable Scope

7. Strings and Factors

  • Strings
  • Constructing and Printing Strings
  • Formatting Numbers
  • Special Characters
  • Changing Case
  • Extracting Substrings
  • Splitting Strings
  • File Paths
  • Factors
  • Creating Factors
  • Changing Factor Levels
  • Dropping Factor Levels
  • Ordered Factors
  • Converting Continuous Variables to Categorical
  • Converting Categorical Variables to Continuous
  • Generating Factor Levels
  • Combining Factors

8. Flow Control and Loops

  • Flow Control
  • if and else
  • Vectorized if
  • Multiple Selection
  • Loops
  • repeat Loops
  • while Loops
  • for Loops

9. Advanced Looping

  • Replication
  • Looping Over Lists
  • Looping Over Arrays
  • Multiple-Input Apply
  • Instant Vectorization
  • Split-Apply-Combine
  • The plyr Package

10. Packages

  • Loading Packages
  • The Search Path
  • Libraries and Installed Packages
  • Installing Packages
  • Maintaining Packages

11. Dates and Times

  • Date and Time Classes
  • POSIX Dates and Times
  • The Date Class
  • Other Date Classes
  • Conversion to and from Strings
  • Parsing Dates
  • Formatting Dates
  • Time Zones
  • Arithmetic with Dates and Times
  • Lubridate

Refund Policy

Cancellation / Reschedule by Student

Because we must schedule rooms, ship course materials, assign instructors and provision computer resources well in advance, it is important students alert us ASAP with any cancel/reschedule requests.

Please note the following policies:

  • If requested 16 or more calendar days before the class
    • Cancellation requests made in this timeframe are eligible for refund less 5% cancellation fee.
    • Reschedule requests made in this timeframe will be accommodated if availability exists and will be processed at no additional charge.
  • If requested 15 calendar days or less before the class
    • Cancellation or Reschedule requests made by the student 15 calendar days or less before the class starts will be charged 100% the course fee and are not entitled to a refund.

Substitutions

  • If you are unable to attend your class, a substitute who meets the course prerequisites may attend in your place at no additional charge for the original class title, date and location. If you cannot find a substitute, you will be subject to the class cancellation policy.

Make-up Policy

Students are permitted one (1) Make-Up opportunity to attend an instructor-led class that was paid for but not previously attended for no additional charge.

  • Make-Up class registrations are subject to availability and are not entitled to refund.
  • Students may not reschedule a Make-up class registration.
  • Any no shows or cancellations forfeit their one Make-up opportunity.

Additionally, ONLC reserves the right to retire courses due to lack of demand. Retired classes are not available for Make-Up.

In the event that an instructor or the school needs to cancel at the last minute, students will receive a refund less a 5% non-refundable registration fee.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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