Course Requirements: You will need a computer with administrator access (to install R and RStudio software before attending the course).
Presenter and Expertise: Peter Humburg, Biostatistician, UNSW Stats Central
Date: 25 August 2025
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Deliver Mode: In-Person ONLY
Location: UNSW Sydney Kensington Campus

You will receive a certificate of completion for the course.

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Course Overview

R is widely used and extremely powerful statistical software. This course assumes that you have never used R before. You will learn how to obtain and install R, which is open-source software, and RStudio, which is a versatile, user-friendly interface for using R. It is very useful to do this course before our Meta-Analysis using R course, Sept 2-3. This course will cover some basic features of R and lay the groundwork for you to improve your R skills independently. The course is self-paced and focused on developing practical skills.

Course outline

This course will cover topics including:

• Basics of interacting with R – calculations, saving variables so you can reuse them, data types and structures, organising R code in scripts
• Tidyverse – a basic introduction to tidy R code
• Data – reading in and organising data (from spreadsheets) with dplyr
• Plotting – make beautiful figures with ggplot