R Foundations 2024

Welcome to the R Foundations course for 2024!

This course is primarily aimed at first year Statistics PhD students. It has been developed as a prerequisite for those attending the Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (APTS) to cover the R material that’s required for those modules.

Students and staff at the University of Warwick have the opportunity to take this course in-person in Term 1. See the schedule for dates. Details for signing up will be sent round through Department of Statistics mailing lists.

For students at other universities attending APTS, working through the content should give you a sufficient grounding to prepare for the R component of the APTS modules.

Syllabus overview

We cover an introduction to R and RStudio; Data types, structures, and data wrangling using the tidyverse; programming in R; simulation and optimisation; graphics (both base and ggplot2), and Quarto.

All slides and further resources can be accessed from the content page and also via the schedule.

Session details

  Monday and Thursday of weeks 4, 6 and 8

  10:30–12:00 on Mondays, 12:30–14:00 on Thursdays

  A1.28, Milburn House

  See the full schedule.

Please fill in the join form to register to attend.

Instructor details

  Ella Kaye

  ella.m.kaye@warwick.ac.uk

Prerequistes

Please see the prerequisites page for details on getting set up in advance of the first session.