R Programming - Advanced Course
Work more efficiently in R language
- create your own functions
- control structures
- loops and loop alternatives
- tidyverse piping syntax
- create visualisations with ggplot2
R Programming - Advanced Course
Build on your base knowledge of the R language and learn how to run data analysis more efficiently.
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We don't have courses scheduled in your city currently. Please join our remote course options or contact us to register your interest.
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Course Introduction
Our R courses were designed by Tamara Shatar, who holds a PhD in Agricultural Data Science. She focused her extensive experience and skills in modelling using machine learning, simulation and other techniques to create a course with depth and applicability.
The course is consistently well reviewed by students.
"The course was really good, the resources provided to help after the course are excellent. I was a bit overwhelmed at the beginning trying to learn a new language, but I was put at ease and we went through the content at a pace that I could understand." - R Beginner Brisbane
"Interesting material and very well run. Thanks again." - R Advanced Brisbane Remote
What is Remote Training?
We offer some of our more specialist courses in a remote format. At Nexacu, this means you will learn the same content as you would in our classrooms and the same trainer will deliver training but all students will log in from their own premises and device. Our Data Scientist, Tamara will host the Data Analytics training sessions, walking you through the basics of R and answering questions and encouraging discussion along the way.
Why Learn R?
Rather than being a point-and-click tool, R is a language that is used for writing reusable scripts, enabling automation and repeatable workflows. Because it is a language, it offers a huge amount of flexibility in manipulating data and the ability to write new functions. Even without a background in programming, it is relatively easy to get up and running once you know the basics.
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Advanced Course Details
R Programming Course Outlines
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What do I need to know to attend?
- You should have completed our R Beginner and R Intermediate course or have basic familiarity with R.
- You will not be expected to code unassisted but will learn more and participate more easily if you have at least a fundamental understanding of R syntax.
- Basic understanding of statistics (mean, median, standard deviation, variance).
R Programming Advanced Learning Outcomes
You will develop a better understanding of R and be able to:
- write custom functions
- write more concise code
- use functionals, loops and other control structures
- create graphics with ggplot2.
R Programming Advanced Course Content
- Working more efficiently in R
- How to work more efficiently in R
- Vectorisation
- Using better functions
- Concise code
- Reusable scripts
- Custom functions
- Loops and other control structures
- Loop alternatives
- Functions to reduce typing
- Printing objects after creating
- with and within
- Inserting multiple quotation marks
- Create your own functions
- Why write your own functions?
- Basics of functions
- What is a function?
- Creating your own functions
- Syntax for writing your own function
- More complex functions
- Ellipses and further arguments
- Scope
- Loading your functions
- Loops and control structures in R
- If and if else
- Loops for loops
- Saving results from a loop
- Improving your code
- While loops
- Repeat loops
- Loop alternatives
- Functionals
- apply functions
- split
- map functions
- map variants
- Returning a vector
- walk
- Loop, apply or map?
- Tidyverse piping syntax
- Purpose
- Using the pipe
- Pipe variants
- The tee operator
- The exposition operator
- Plotting with ggplot2
- The grammar of graphics
- Required components
- Using ggplot()
- Scatterplot
- Line chart
- ggplot2 resources