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Outline for the week

GENERAL INFORMATION

The NMNH R Crash Course is tentatively scheduled to take place April 2-6, 2018. Instruction will be given from 9 to 11:30 am over the course of five days, location TBD (NMNH). This course is designed for researchers with no prior knowledge of programming or of R. Access to a personal laptop is required - let us know if this poses a problem.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [email protected] and/or [email protected].

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Day 1 or 2:

• Basics of R
• Variables and objects
• Functions and packages
• Conditionals and logical operators
• Practice

Day 3:

• Getting to know data frames
• Exploring objects
• Data frame navigation and manipulation
• Practice

Day 4:

• Plotting basics
• Advanced plotting (ggplot 2 package)
• Loops
• Practice

Day 5:

• Building functions
• "Apply" functions
• Efficient data analysis (plyr package)
• Data reorganization (reshape and tidyr packages)
• Wrap Up