R Foundations 2025
Welcome to the R Foundations course for 2025!
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.
The course is also suitable for doctoral students and post-docs across other departments, and open to all interested members of the university, space permitting.
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
Thursday and Friday of weeks 2, 4 and 6 (Oct 16th, 17th, 20th, 31st, Nov 13th, 14th)
12:30–14:00
A0.28, Milburn House
See the full schedule.
Please fill in the join form to register to attend.
Instructor details
Prerequistes
Please see the prerequisites page for details on getting set up in advance of the first session.