This is a flipped class; links to PowerPoint slides, lecture videos, and practice exercises that you can view on your own schedule are available upon registration. During the in-person hands-on session, you will learn how to solve the exercise problems. This is the first part of a three-part series: Introduction to R; Data Management in R, and Data Visualization in R.

Registration is required. Please register here.

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• identify components of the R interface
• perform simple calculations in R
• identify and compare data types in R
• use existing functions in R
• write simple functions in R
• load external packages in R 

Target Audience:  Novice R users or anyone seeking to learn how to use R for data analysis and graphics. Neither programming experience nor familiarity with R is required.