An introduction to R, 2019-2020 - *Canceled because of the Corona-virus*

Semester

Semester 2, 2019-2020

Type of course

Methodological and Practical Courses

Date

May 6 and May 7, 2020

Location

Tilburg University, room to be announced.

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Duration

2 days

Maximum number of participants

20

ECTS

1 EC will be appointed for participation in the complete course

Staff

Willem Sleegers (Tilburg University), Bastian Jaeger (Tilburg University)

Content
In this course, participants will learn the basics of the statistical programming language R. R is increasingly being used by researchers to prepare, analyze, and visualize data. Our approach to teaching R will consist of going over the basics of R, and focus on common visualizations of analyses of data that are common in psychological research.

Learning goals
The participant will learn how to…
1) Perform basic R operations (e.g., writing R scripts, executing code, using functions, creating variables).
2) Import tabular data (e.g., text files, SPSS files).
3) Perform basic data cleaning operations (e.g., filtering data, selecting columns, renaming variables, summarizing data).
4) Create beautiful data visualizations (e.g., histograms, scatter plots, violin plots).
5) Perform common statistical techniques (e.g., t-tests, correlations, and regression).

Preparation
Please bring your own laptop, and install R and RStudio software on your laptop before the course.