Course Advanced R

The Advanced R course (A297/05) is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2024.

Requirements for participation: Participants must have some basic knowledge in R and some experience writing some R code. How to create variables, functions, loops, etc. How to subset objects such as vectors and data frames.

Aim: This course aims to give PhD students a greater understanding of the R language for them to produce more clean, sophisticated and efficient R code, and also make them adopt better practices and learn more about packages and tools that will simplify their life when coding in R and doing some data analysis and visualization.

Note that this is NOT a Statistics course.

Learning outcomes:  At the end of the course, participants should be able to:

• Use RStudio with a better setup to be more efficient in their work
• Version their code with Git to keep track of changes in their code
• Understand more R as a programming language and write better, simpler code
• Manipulate and visualize data with the tidyverse and R Markdown
• Produce efficient R code
• Develop an R package

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 30 hours

Content: 

• Good practices + advanced programming with R
• Data analysis with the tidyverse
• Code performance
• How to make an R package

Instructors: Jette Steinbach & Florian Privé

Venue: Fuglesangs Allé 26, 8210 Aarhus V – 2641-130 IT-Undervisningslokale

Time and date: Week #34 (August 19-23) from 9 to 12 and 13 to 16 (30 hours in total). 

Maximum number of participants: 18

Program:

• Day 1: Good practices and setup + Advanced programming with R + Introduction to R Markdown
• Day 2: Data visualization with {ggplot2} + Data analysis with {dplyr} and other packages
• Day 3: Data analysis with {dplyr} and other packages (cont.) + Code performance
• Day 4: How to make an R package + Project preparation
• Day 5: Project preparation (cont.) + Project presentation

Participation in the course is without cost for:

• PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
• PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

• 19 August 2024 09:00 - 16:00
• 20 August 2024 09:00 - 16:00
• 21 August 2024 09:00 - 16:00
• 22 August 2024 09:00 - 16:00
• 23 August 2024 09:00 - 16:00