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title: "Introduction to R for Data Analysis"
subtitle: "University of Utah"
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[![](DELPHI-long.png)](https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/delphi-data-science-initiative)


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**Date**: August 29-30 2024

**Time**: 9:00 am -- 4:00 pm MDT

**Location**: HELIX Rm - GS150 - Chokecherry

**Instructors**: Rebecca Barter, George Vega Yon
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**Registration**: Use the [following link](https://forms.gle/sNwVvgH7SHGUhjNN6) to sign up for this workshop.

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## General Information

**What**: This workshop will introduce the basics of the R programming language for data science, with a focus on the fundamentals of the R programming language, the dplyr package for manipulating data, and the ggplot2 workshop for data visualization.

**Who**: The course is aimed at graduate students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and other researchers across campus who are interested in learning how to use R for data analysis. You don't need to have coding experience or any previous knowledge of R to attend this workshop.

**Requirements**: Participants must bring a laptop onto which they can [download R and Rstudio](https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/) (and you should do so before the workshop).

**Contact**: Please email andrew.george@hsc.utah.edu or rebecca.barter@hsc.utah.edu for more information.

## Schedule

Note that the schedule below serves as a guideline. The start, end, and break times are fixed, but timing for each topics covered may vary as we may go faster or slower through the content.

### Day 1


| Time  | Topic     | Incomplete .qmd |  Complete .qmd |
| ----:|:----|:---------------|:-----------------|
| 9:00   | Introduction and Setup |   |   |
| 9:30    | Introduction to RStudio and Quarto |    | |
| 10:00   | Introduction to Coding with R |   | |
| 10:30   | [Break] |   |    |
| 10:45   | Variables |  |     |
| 11:30   | Types | | |
| 12:00  | [Lunch] | |    |
| 1:00   | Vectors | |  |
| 2:30   | [Break] | |    |
| 2:45   | Packages |  |    |
| 3:00   | Loading Data into R |  |    |
| 3:30   | Data Frames with "Base R" |  |   |
| 4:00   | [End] |  |    |



### Day 2


| Time   | Topic           | Incomplete .qmd | Complete .qmd | 
| ----:|:----|:---------------|:-----------------|
| 9:00    | Data Frames with dplyr (select and filter)  | | |
| 10:30   | [Break] |   |   |
| 10:45   | Data Frames with dplyr (mutate and summarize) | |  | 
| 12:00   | [Lunch] |   |   |
| 1:00   | Data Visualization with ggplot2  | |
| 2:30   | [Break] |   |   |
| 2:45   | Advanced ggplot2 |  | |
| 3:30   | Other topics |  | |
| 4:00  | [End] |   |   |