Prague, Czech Republic

Crash Course in R

online course
when 6 August 2021 - 7 August 2021
language English
duration 1 week
credits 2 EC
fee EUR 190

Crash Course in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place on 6 and 7 August.

COVID-19

You can choose if you attend in face-to-face or online form. In case you have paid face-to-face form, and the coronavirus situation will not allow us to run the summer school in this form, or if the restrictions will not allow you to come, you attend the summer school online and we refund the amount you paid extra for the face-to-face form.

BASIC INFO

This course is aimed at people with little to no knowledge of programming in R language and little to no experience with programming. We will introduce basic concepts such as variables and functions, how to use command line, how to write and share scripts and how and where to look for help. Later, we will learn about various data types and data operations, and we will finish with basic exploration and visualisation of datasets. After finishing this crash course, you should be able to load, access, explore and visualize your data. You should also understand basic programming terminology and online help and be able work on projects in R on your own.

TOPICS

- Introduction to R
- Basics of Programming
- Working with Variables
- Working with Vectors
- Loading and Saving Data
- Working with Data Frames
- Introduction to Visualisations
- Basic Descriptive Statistics and Data Reporting

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Credits info

2 EC
ECTS REQUIREMENTS

After successful completion of the course, you get 2 ECTS. Student has to get in total at least 60% of all available points which are being awarded for the following activities:
- attend all lectures (15 hrs. of WL / 1 pt. per hour, 15 in total)
- submit 3 homeworks (6 hrs. of WL / 5 pts. per homework, 15 in total)
- final exam (21 hrs. of WL / 70 pts).

Fee info

EUR 190: Students
EUR 240: Regular
These are online participation fees. Face-to-face participation fees are 290€ (students) and 340€ (regular).