Coursera, hail to Coursera. Despite the uprising criticism on MOOCs and their footprint in the educational landscape at universities Coursera created an interesting R learning course. It is divided and scheduled for 4 weeks and has video-tutorials as well as written material. The guys over at RevolutionAnalytics packed it all together:
Content:
- Setting working directory and getting help
- How to get help
- Data Types
- Subsetting
- Vectorized Operations
- Reading/Writing Data
- Control Structures in R
- Writing Functions
- Avoiding loops using xapply
- Plotting
- Regular expressions
- Regular expressions in R
- Classes and methods in R
It is a free course and is very userfriendly. The lecturer is Roger D. Peng from the John Hopkins University. Unfortunately he is a biostatistician so the examples might not be geo-orientated but biostatisticians have probably the best knowledge when it comes to using R and statistics.
Here are the videos:
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[…] Coursera, hail to Coursera. Despite the uprising criticism on MOOCs and their footprint in the educational landscape at universities Coursera created an interesting R learning course. It is divided and scheduled for 4 weeks and has video-tutorials as well as written material. The guys over at RevolutionAnalytics packed it all together:Content:Setting working directory and getting helpHow to get helpData TypesSubsettingVectorized OperationsReading/Writing DataControl Structures in RWriting FunctionsAvoiding loops using xapplyPlottingRegular expressionsRegular expressions in RClasses and methods in R […]