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Over the past few years, R has been steadily gaining popularity with business analysts, statisticians and data scientists as a tool of choice for conducting statistical analysis of data as well as supervised and unsupervised machine learning.


Objectives:

This intensive R Programming Introduction training course helps students learn the practical aspects of the R programming language. The course is supplemented by many hands-on labs which allow attendees to immediately apply their theoretical knowledge in practice.


Topics:

  •     High octane introduction to R programming
  •     Learning about R data structures
  •     Working with R functions
  •     Statistical data analysis with R

R Programming Introduction

Course Code

GTR1

Duration

2 Days

Course Fee

POA

Accreditation

N/A

Target Audience

  • Business Analysts, Technical Managers, and Programmers

Attendee Requirements

  • Participants should have the general knowledge of statistics and programming

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Course Description

Over the past few years, R has been steadily gaining popularity with business analysts, statisticians and data scientists as a tool of choice for conducting statistical analysis of data as well as supervised and unsupervised machine learning.


Objectives:

This intensive R Programming Introduction training course helps students learn the practical aspects of the R programming language. The course is supplemented by many hands-on labs which allow attendees to immediately apply their theoretical knowledge in practice.


Topics:

  •     High octane introduction to R programming
  •     Learning about R data structures
  •     Working with R functions
  •     Statistical data analysis with R
Course Outline

Chapter 1. What is R

  •     What is R?
  •     Positioning of R in the Data Science Space
  •     The Legal Aspects
  •     Microsoft R Open
  •     R Integrated Development Environments
  •     Running R
  •     Running RStudio
  •     Getting Help
  •     General Notes on R Commands and Statements
  •     Assignment Operators
  •     R Core Data Structures
  •     Assignment Example
  •     R Objects and Workspace
  •     Printing Objects
  •     Arithmetic Operators
  •     Logical Operators
  •     System Date and Time
  •     Operations
  •     User-defined Functions
  •     Control Statements
  •     Conditional Execution
  •     Repetitive Execution
  •     Repetitive execution
  •     Built-in Functions

Chapter 2. Introduction to Functional Programming with R

  •     What is Functional Programming (FP)?
  •     Terminology: Higher-Order Functions
  •     A Short List of Languages that Support FP
  •     Functional Programming in R
  •     Vector and Matrix Arithmetic
  •     Vector Arithmetic Example
  •     More Examples of FP in R

Chapter 3. Managing Your Environment

  •     Getting and Setting the Working Directory
  •     Getting the List of Files in a Directory
  •     The R Home Directory
  •     Executing External R commands
  •     Loading External Scripts in RStudio
  •     Listing Objects in Workspace
  •     Removing Objects in Workspace
  •     Saving Your Workspace in R
  •     Saving Your Workspace in RStudio
  •     Saving Your Workspace in R GUI
  •     Loading Your Workspace
  •     Diverting Output to a File
  •     Batch (Unattended) Processing
  •     Controlling Global Options

Chapter 4. R Type System and Structures

  •     The R Data Types
  •     System Date and Time
  •     Formatting Date and Time
  •     Using the mode() Function
  •     R Data Structures
  •     What is the Type of My Data Structure?
  •     Creating Vectors
  •     Logical Vectors
  •     Character Vectors
  •     Factorization
  •     Multi-Mode Vectors
  •     The Length of the Vector
  •     Getting Vector Elements
  •     Lists
  •     A List with Element Names
  •     Extracting List Elements
  •     Adding to a List
  •     Matrix Data Structure
  •     Creating Matrices
  •     Creating Matrices with cbind() and rbind()
  •     Working with Data Frames
  •     Matrices vs Data Frames
  •     A Data Frame Sample
  •     Creating a Data Frame
  •     Accessing Data Cells
  •     Getting Info About a Data Frame
  •     Selecting Columns in Data Frames
  •     Selecting Rows in Data Frames
  •     Getting a Subset of a Data Frame
  •     Sorting (ordering) Data in Data Frames by Attribute(s)
  •     Editing Data Frames
  •     The str() Function
  •     Type Conversion (Coercion)
  •     The summary() Function
  •     Checking an Object's Type

Chapter 5. Extending R

  •     The Base R Packages
  •     Loading Packages
  •     What is the Difference between Package and Library?
  •     Extending R
  •     The CRAN Web Site
  •     Extending R in R GUI
  •     Extending R in RStudio
  •     Installing and Removing Packages from Command-Line

Chapter 6. Read-Write and Import-Export Operations in R

  •     Reading Data from a File into a Vector
  •     Example of Reading Data from a File into A Vector
  •     Writing Data to a File
  •     Example of Writing Data to a File
  •     Reading Data into A Data Frame
  •     Writing CSV Files
  •     Importing Data into R
  •     Exporting Data from R

Chapter 7. Statistical Computing Features in R

  •     Statistical Computing Features
  •     Descriptive Statistics
  •     Basic Statistical Functions
  •     Examples of Using Basic Statistical Functions
  •     Non-uniformity of a Probability Distribution
  •     Writing Your Own skew and kurtosis Functions
  •     Generating Normally Distributed Random Numbers
  •     Generating Uniformly Distributed Random Numbers
  •     Using the summary() Function
  •     Math Functions Used in Data Analysis
  •     Examples of Using Math Functions
  •     Correlations
  •     Correlation Example
  •     Testing Correlation Coefficient for Significance
  •     The cor.test() Function
  •     The cor.test() Example
  •     Regression Analysis
  •     Types of Regression
  •     Simple Linear Regression Model
  •     Least-Squares Method (LSM)
  •     LSM Assumptions
  •     Fitting Linear Regression Models in R
  •     Example of Using lm()
  •     Confidence Intervals for Model Parameters
  •     Example of Using lm() with a Data Frame
  •     Regression Models in Excel
  •     Multiple Regression Analysis

Chapter 8. Data Manipulation and Transformation in R

  •     Applying Functions to Matrices and Data Frames
  •     The apply() Function
  •     Using apply()
  •     Using apply() with a User-Defined Function
  •     apply() Variants
  •     Using tapply()
  •     Adding a Column to a Data Frame
  •     Dropping A Column in a Data Frame
  •     The attach() and detach() Functions
  •     Sampling
  •     Using sample() for Generating Labels
  •     Set Operations
  •     Example of Using Set Operations
  •     The dplyr Package
  •     Object Masking (Shadowing) Considerations
  •     Getting More Information on dplyr in RStudio
  •     The search() or searchpaths() Functions
  •     Handling Large Data Sets in R with the data.table Package
  •     The fread() and fwrite() functions from the data.table Package
  •     Using the Data Table Structure

Chapter 9. Data Visualization in R

  •     Data Visualization
  •     Data Visualization in R
  •     The ggplot2 Data Visualization Package
  •     Creating Bar Plots in R
  •     Creating Horizontal Bar Plots
  •     Using barplot() with Matrices
  •     Using barplot() with Matrices Example
  •     Customizing Plots
  •     Histograms in R
  •     Building Histograms with hist()
  •     Example of using hist()
  •     Pie Charts in R
  •     Examples of using pie()
  •     Generic X-Y Plotting
  •     Examples of the plot() function
  •     Dot Plots in R
  •     Saving Your Work
  •     Supported Export Options
  •     Plots in RStudio
  •     Saving a Plot as an Image

Chapter 10. Using R Efficiently

  •     Object Memory Allocation Considerations
  •     Garbage Collection
  •     Finding Out About Loaded Packages
  •     Using the conflicts() Function
  •     Getting Information About the Object Source Package with the pryr Package
  •     Using the where() Function from the pryr Package
  •     Timing Your Code
  •     Timing Your Code with system.time()
  •     Timing Your Code with System.time()
  •     Sleeping a Program
  •     Handling Large Data Sets in R with the data.table Package
  •     Passing System-Level Parameters to R

Lab Exercises

Lab 1 -  Getting Started with R     

Lab 2 -  Learning the R Type System and Structures            

Lab 3 -  Read and Write Operations in R   

Lab 4 -  Data Import and Export in R          

Lab 5 -  k-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm   

Lab 6 - Creating Your Own Statistical Functions    

Lab 7 - Simple Linear Regression  

Lab 8 - Monte-Carlo Simulation (Method)              

Lab 9 -  Data Processing with R    

Lab 10 - Using R Graphics Package             

Lab 11 -  Using R Efficiently 

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