Course Overview

Date: 2 February 2026
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Delivery Mode: In-Person ONLY
Location: UNSW Sydney, Kensington Campus
Course Requirements: You will need a computer with administrator access (to install R and RStudio software before attending the course).

You will receive a certificate of completion for the course.

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 introductory statistics course, Introductory Statistics for Researchers. 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.

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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