What is R?
R is a programming language and computing environment. It's designed specifically for statistics and data analysis. In the last two decades, R has grown to be one of the 10 most popular programming languages in the world.
R has between 10 and 20 million regular users. There are over 18,000 add-on statistics and data science packages available. It's widely and increasingly used throughout academia for both teaching and research.
Outside academia, R is also used in:
- the internet and tech sector
- the healthcare sector
- the financial services industry
- journalism
- government
- the public sector.
R is a dominant tool in any sector of the economy where data analysis plays a vital role. Learning to use R and its most popular packages has become essential in many industries. R users are increasingly sought after.
The benefits of learning R
By learning R or by expanding your current R skillset, you can:
- become a more effective and efficient data analyst
- efficiently process and manipulate large and complex data sets
- produce visualizations to explore patterns in the data
- perform more sophisticated statistical analyses.
Who can attend an R short course
We offer a four-day in person workshop and workshop-based online continuing professional development (CPD) courses. We've designed them for a wide range of people who want to get more out of their data.
- are at any stage of their careers, and
- are seeking to learn R, or
- wish to advance their R-based computational statistics and data science techniques and skills.
Courses coming soon
The following online courses are now available to book. Please email kelly.smith@ntu.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Introduction to statistics using R and Rstudio
Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis with R and Stan
Introduction to Generalized Linear Models in R
Introduction to Data Visualization and Data Dashboards with R using ggplot and Shiny
Introduction to Data Wrangling using R and tidyverse
Introduction to Multilevel (hierarchical, or mixed effects) Models using R
This 4-day in-person course isn't open to book yet, but dates will be confirmed soon. Please contact us to register your interest.