Modular R course for all levels

Concept

This modular seminar addresses everybody who is interested in learning R from scratch or in improving existing skills. You will be able to sign up for individual modules.

This seminar is also intended as a preparation for the course in applied statistics, which requires some scripting skills. A date for the next edition of that course has not yet been fixed.

There will be

a little theory
focus on technical aspects (not on interpretation)
time for questions and answers
hands-on training based on the requests you write in the comment field of the registration form. Feel free to approach us with your data

What you need to prepare:

Please make sure that a recent version of R is running on your laptop.
You can download the most recent version here: http://www.r-project.org/
RStudio is a new open-source integrated development environment that runs on all platforms. It nicely combines console, script editor, working directory, plots etc. into a an uncluttered layout that you can easily navigate. You need to have R installed before you can use RStudio as a development environment.

Please also make sure that you can access the internet via WLAN (BGC-users, if you have a BGC-account; BGC-guests, if you don't have an account)

R — The basics

When?
- mornings of March 28-30, 2012
- repeated on April 03-05, 2012
Where? MPI for Biogeochemistry, Seminar room B0.002
taught by Anna Goerner

Advanced modules by Thomas Wutzler

Focus: speeding up your computations, sharing your code, object oriented programming
When? April 18-19, 2012; start is 9:30 in the morning and 13:30 for the afternoon sessions
Where? MPI for Biogeochemistry, Seminar room B0.002

Advanced modules by Jannis von Buttlar

Focus: Time series
When? May 09, 2012
Where? MPI for Biogeochemistry, Seminar room B0.002

Advanced modules by Matthias Forkel

Focus: Spatial data
When? May 23, 2012, 9:30-12:30 morning session, 13:30-16:30 afternoon session
Where? MPI for Biogeochemistry, Seminar room B0.002