R - An Introduction

Students who want to develop skills in managing scientific data using the statistical software R.

• R basics (setting up and working with the statistical package R)
• Data wrangling (importing, organizing, and modifying data sets)
• Data visualization (plotting and visualizing data with different types of graphs)

This course will introduce students to tools and instruments necessary for managing scientific data. Thereby, the students develop and/or expand their analytical skill sets, among them the ability

• to operate the statistical package “R”.
• to import, organize, modify, and statistically analyze data.
• to generate graphs that visualize data in meaningful ways.