Course Description

Course ID:

RSTAT-400

Category:

Technical / Software

Continuing Education Units:

1.30CEUs

Video

Description:

**Note - For every course we have implemented live stream remote attendance . You will need a computer and an internet connection.

This course is designed for participants who wish to gain beginning to intermediate skills in using R for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing their environmental or ecological data. R is a comprehensive statistical programming language that is cooperatively developed on the Internet as an open source project. This freely available statistical package R is a powerful tool and is projected to become the most widely used statistical software.

This class uses datasets complete with errors you get practice taking real field data into R, through hands-on using instructor-led examples. It is applicable to anyone that conducts environmental monitoring or uses environmental or ecological data for research, management, or policy-making and is recommended for anyone needing to become proficient with R basics. Being proficient in R will help participants be competitive in their chosen fields.

"Provided a solid foundation yet linkages to allow one to delve deeper into more advanced topics." C. Lynch, October 2013

"Very good introduction to R, gained familiarity with data types and data manipulation." B. McGuire, October, 2013

"Provided a lot of information covering how to do many things in R. the book will serve as a good tool using R in the future." P. Kusnierz, October, 2013

"There were excellent course materials. I will be using the manual as a reference for along time to come." T. Kantz, September, 2013

"Hands-on learning; great instructor who knows the subject and the data; excellent camaraderie among the students." T. Kahler, September, 2013

After completing this course attendees will be able to:

Understand the uses of R for working with environmental or ecological data
Installing R and R libraries
Import and export data from Excel
Sorting, merging, and aggregating, subsetting, and converting data
Query and display data and generate basic data summaries
Create a variety of high quality data visualization graphics
Perform common statistical tests including t-tests, ANOVA, and linear models
Develop basic scripts to automate and document procedures and analyses

Please note that attendees will need to have a laptop to class with the R software program. Instructions on how to download the program will be emailed out prior to the class. Installations must be completed prior to class - please contact us if you are having problems.

*Reduced tuition is available for Native American tribes, government employees, nonprofits, students and AFS, NAEP, NEBC, TAEP members.

You may register online or by calling the Northwest Environmental Training Center at (425) 270-3274. Online registration is strongly encouraged.

Please wait to receive a course confirmation email, roughly one month prior to the class, before making any travel arrangements.

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with basic statistical concepts and methods as used in the natural and social sciences.

*Registered attendees will receive a PDF copy of course materials prior to the class. A hard copy may be requested for United States addresses

Intended Audience:

This course is beneficial for anyone desiring to become proficient in the basics of data manipulation, high quality plotting and graphing, and data summary and statistical analyses using R; researchers, students, data analysts, etc.

More Information

Course Topics

Installing R and R libraries
Reading and writing data (read(), write()) and viewing R data sets
Creating new variables and recoding or renaming variables
Manipulating data (order(), merge(), aggregate(), t(), which())
Summarizing data (sapply(), summary(), table(), xtabs())
Visualizing data (par(), plot(),hist(), points(), line(), barplot(), pie(), boxplot())
Statistical analysis (cor(), t.test(), lm() and regression diagnostics)
R programming basics (program control and user defined functions)

What to Bring

A laptop with the R software program. A computer with an internet connection. Pen or pencil and paper to take notes if you wish.

Billing Information

In order to guarantee a space in a course, the tuition must be paid in full TWO WEEKS before the first day of the course by either check or credit card. State and government agencies paying with a purchase order are allowed payment under the two-week time frame if a copy of the purchase order is received by NWETC.

If You Need to Cancel

Cancellations*

With 31 or more days notice, we will offer a 100% refund or credit towards a future course. The credit is good for one year and may be applied to any course.
With 30-8 days notice, we will offer a course credit towards a future course. The credit is good for one year and may be applied to any course.
With fewer than 8 days notice, there is no course credit available

*Please note that attendee replacement is welcome at any time