Intro to R for Academic Researchers

University at Albany - EPSY 887 - Fall 2019

Schedule

This schedule is tentative and is subject to changed based upon the interests of the class

Date Topic Resources
August 29 Introduction to R and RStudio Intro Course Slides, Intro R Slides
September 5 Data wrangling Slides, R Script, Data File, R Script with Answers
September 12 Data visualization Slides, R Script, Class R Script, Gapminder Data Files: Countries, Life Expectancy, Population, Income
September 19 Programming with R Slides, merge_all.R, bootstrap.R
September 26 Documenting with R Slides
October 3 Working Session
October 10 Intro to Predictive Modeling and CART Methods Slides
October 17 Handling Missing Data in R Slides
October 24 Intro to Propensity Score Analysis Slides
October 31 TBD
November 7 No class meeting
November 14 Working Session Sample Presentation, Source
November 21 No class meeting
November 28 No class - Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
December 5 Presentations
December 12 Presentations / Course wrap-up

Possible topics:

  • Interactive websites with shiny
  • The ananytomy of an R package
  • Classification and regression tree (CART) methods
  • Propensity score analysis
  • Text Analysis
  • Factor analysis
  • Simulations
  • Cluster analysis

  • Social network analysis

Last updated on April 9, 2014 / Published on April 9, 2014
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