With advances in computer and data science and the enormous opportunity to share software applications, one statistical software application has stood out as a real game-changer. That software tool is called R. R is an open-source resource that provides access to tools by some of the greatest minds in statistics and data science. These tools include all the basic statistical methodologies but also cutting-edge methods that are only now developing in academic and industrial centers around the world. Learning how to use R effectively creates in the user enormous potential to approach routine and advanced tasks with ease.

In this course, you will:

• Learn what R is and how you can make use of it in your daily work

• Use R Studio to write and manage scripts

• Develop facility with the most useful commands and learn how R is structured

• Import data from a wide variety of sources and learn how to clean and manipulate it

• Write your own functions and export results in graphical and numerical form

• Manage multiple projects

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