Friday, March 12th at 10am PST/ 11am MST/ 12pm CST/ 1pm EST
1-hour presentation followed by 30 minutes of discussion

We will introduce R programming language and outline the benefits of learning R. We will give a brief tour of basic concepts and tasks: variables, objects, functions, basic statistics, visualization, and data import/export. We will showcase a practical example demonstrating statistical analysis.

Goals of this webinar:

• Why should one use/learn R?
• How to install R/Rstudio
• Learn about R basics: variables, programming, functions
• Learn about the R package ecosystem that extends its capabilities
• See a basic statistical analysis example
• Learn about additional resources

Presented by:
Gregory Farage, PhD and Saunak Sen, PhD
Department of Preventive Medicine
University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Link to course material

Webinar flyer (pdf)