Mastering R Skills: Selected Topics for Successful Programming

Description

R is a powerful and extensive language, and in recent years a lot of useful additions have been made. This also makes it confusing at times to link the different paradigms together and find the most optimal workflow.

This course is aimed at giving you more insight in how to work more efficiently with R and RStudio. We focus on some more challenging data types, and give an overview of the necessary building tools to optimize your workflow.

This course is part of a larger course series in Data Analysis consisting of 19 individual modules. Find more information and enroll for this module via www.ipvw-ices.ugent.be

Program

The following topics will be covered:

• Working with text: text comparison and editing with help of regular expressions
• Working with dates and times
• Working with files, folders and projects to organise your work
• Automating using functions for standard R, tidyverse and ggplot2