Key Information

Tutor: Dr John Pinney
Duration: 3 x 2 hour sessions
Delivery: Live (Online)
Course Credit (PGR only): 1 credit 
Audience: Research Degree Students, Postdocs, Research Fellows

Dates

  • 29, 30 Sept & 01 Oct 2025
    12:30-14:30, MS Teams
  • 12, 13 & 14 January 2026
    14:00-16:00, MS Teams
  • 27, 28 & 29 April 2026
    15:00-17:00, MS Teams
  • 05, 06 & 07 May 2026
    13:00-15:00, MS Teams

Course Resources

This course provides an introduction to R as a programming language.  We will not look at data handling or statistical tests in detail, as these are beyond the scope of this introductory course.

The course will include a lot of hands-on practice using the RStudio environment.

Syllabus:

  • Basic calculations
  • Data structures
  • Control structures
  • Functions
  • Importing data
  • Plotting charts

This course is open to Research Degree Students, Postdocs & Research Fellows. Limited spaces available for wider Imperial community.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this workshop you will be better able to:

  • Use RStudio to work with R notebooks.
  • Apply fundamental components of the R language including variables, loops, conditionals, functions and data structures.
  • Import data from a file to make simple plots.
  • Create programs designed to solve simple problems

Prerequisites:

No prior programming experience is required.

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