One day course 09.30 – 16.30

R – a freely available version of the S programming language is becoming more and more popular as a statistical analysis package. R can be freely downloaded from the web and provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques. R enables the user to have more control over the algorithms used to analyse data and therefore facilitates more sophisticated analyses than allowed by other packages, e.g. SPSS, Minitab, etc. There is also a wealth of support to users on the internet with freely downloadable routines that can be used for specific purposes. It is becoming very popular amongst statisticians and other researchers e.g. within the business. medical and economics fields. We will give full instructions on downloading R before running the course and you may need to bring your laptop to the course.

This course will serve as an introduction to the package and its uses at a very elementary level. A high level of statistical knowledge will not be assumed.
This course is taught by an experienced statistician – advice can be sought during the day for specific research/analyses queries.