This course is designed for those who have little to no prior programming experience in R or any other programming language. Its aim is to build up from the basics and teach you the capabilities of R. By the end of this course you will have acquired a valuable new skill for exploring datasets and creating impressive visualizations.

Base-R Level 1

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R is everywhere

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Introduction to R

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Quiz: R Facts

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Why Use R?

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Quiz: Using R

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You R in Good Company

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Building Blocks

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Exercise: Submit your first code

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Combine values into a vector

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Introduction to Vectors

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Types of vectors

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Quiz: Data Types

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Creating a sequence of numbers

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Exercise: Use the : operator

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Concatenating numeric values to a vector

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Exercise: Concatenate numbers

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Creating character vectors

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Exercise: Create a character vector

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Exercise: Concatenate text

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Creating logical vectors

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Exercise: Concatenate logical values

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Quiz: Vectors Recap

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Create variables through assignments

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Assigning variables

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Exercise: Assign numeric vector to variable

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Exercise: Assign character vector to variable

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Quiz: Variable Overriding

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Quiz: Vector Concatenation

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Naming rules

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Quiz: Naming Rules

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Use basic operators

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Using R as a pocket calculator

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Exercise: Use basic arithmetic

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Applying arithmetic operators on vectors

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Quiz: Vector Multiplication

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Exercise: Multiply numeric vectors

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Using relational operators

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Exercise: Compare numeric values

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Exercise: Compare temperatures

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Using logical operators

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Exercise: Use the & operator

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Exercise: Use the | operator

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Using the %in% operator

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Exercise: Use the %in% operator

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Call existing R code through functions

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Introduction to functions

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Exercise: Use the sqrt() function

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Customizing functions through parameters

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Exercise: Use the sample() function

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Exercise: Use the seq() function

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Use existing functions and data through packages

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Introduction to packages

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Calling a package

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Exercise: Check for leap year

Start your R journey and learn the most fundamental building blocks of the environmenent.  Learn how to use and assign vectors with operators and functions. Use packages to access functions and  data from external sources.

Basics

Data Frames Level 1

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Build a data frame from vectors

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Introduction to Data Frames

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Quiz: Data Frame Output

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Quiz: Data Frame Output (2)

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Creating Data Frames

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Exercise: Creating Your First Data Frame

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Quiz: Which statements are true about this data frame?

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Create and convert tibbles

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Introduction to Tibbles

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Quiz: Tibbles versus Data Frames

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Creating Tibbles

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Converting data frames to Tibbles

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Exercise: Convert data frame to Tibble

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Extract or replace columns in a data frame using $

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Extract columns with the $

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Quiz: Extract column from a data frame

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Exercise: Extract column from a data frame

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Determine the size of a data frame

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Data Frame Dimensions

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Exercise: Determine number of elements in data frame

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Retrieving data frame dimensions

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Quiz: Data Frame Dimensions

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Select first or last rows of a data frame

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Selecting the top of a data frame

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Exercise: Select the top of a data frame

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Selecting the bottom of a data frame

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Exercise: Select the bottom of a data frame

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Exercise: Select the top from the bottom data frame

Create tabular data structures with data frames and see how they compare to tibbles.  Extract column vectors from data frames for computations. Get metadata information like dimensions. Select top- and bottom rows for a quick overview.

Data Frames and Tibbles

Tidy Data Transformation Level 1

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Introduction to dplyr

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What is dplyr

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Quiz: dplyr Facts

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Function Framework

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Quiz: Valid Functions

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Select columns from a data frame

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Selecting by name

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Exercise: Life expectancy in Austria

Use basic dplyr verbs to filter rows, select columns and sort/arrange datasets in  combination with  the pipe <code>%>%</code> operator.

Data Visualization with ggplot2

Why data visualization is important

Specify additional aesthetics for points

Create your first bar chart

Create a scatter plot with ggplot

Create a line graph with ggplot

Introduction to R

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