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To register for any of the below workshops, please email marcin.adamski@anu.edu.au no later than October 7th. The workshops are offered at no cost.

1. Introduction to R and RStudio

Co-organised with Teresa Neeman from ANU Statistical Consulting Unit

The workshop will be over 2 half-days 31/10 and 1/11 9:30am-1:30pm, and will cover basic concepts in R, including:

• introduction to R and RStudio,
• importing and graphing data, 
• basic data processing, and statistics,
• good coding practice.

The short course will help you to be more cofident using R and will prepare you for understanding statistical modelling in R. This workshop is for R and RStudio novices. No previous experience in R or RStudio is expected. 

2. Data Processing in R for beginners

Co-organised with Janet Gardner from EEG

This will be a 6 hour workshop on 8/11 9:30am-12:30pm - lunch break - 1:00-4:00pm and will be covering:

• Brief introduction to R and RStudio.
• Data types in R, and type conversions.
• Loading and saving tab and coma delimited files.
• Data exploration:
• basic statistic (mean, std. deviation and so on),
• basic plots (dotplots and histograms).
• Data sub-setting and filtering.
• Adding new columns with calculated values.
• Find-and-replace for values in a column.
• Detecting and handling errors an missing values in the data.
• Designing an appropriate structure for a spreadsheet.
• Joining datasets.
• Programming - creating functions in R.

3. Data Processing in R for advanced users

Co-organised with Janet Gardner from EEG

This will be a 6 hour workshop on 15/11 9:30am-12:30pm - lunch break - 1:00-4:00pm covering the same subjects as workshop #2 but will be much more focused on writing code (programming in R) and practical exercises and will skip the basics.