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Saturday July 13, 2019
​Presenter: Rachel Pilla
​Co-instructor: Nicole Berry
​Miami University of Ohio
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The full-day R workshop will cover:
  • Getting data into and out of R
  • Graphing
  • Data manipulation and descriptive statistics
  • Basic statistics: t-tests, ANOVA, regressions
  • Come ready to ask questions about your data so you can get advice on approaches in R
  • One hour "nature break" to paddle on Lake Lacawac or take a short hike

​Details
  • Space is limited - register early!
  • Breakfast begins at 7AM
  • Workshop runs 8AM - 5PM
  • Registration $100 ($80 consortium member institutions)and includes breakfast and lunch
  • Lodging is available at $27/night ($12 consortium member institutions)
  • Deadline to register is June 28, 2019

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For more information or questions contact: 
Beth Norman​
Director of Science and Research
beth.norman@lacawac.org
​570-689-9494 

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​What is R?

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU Project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.

R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.
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One of R’s strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in graphics, but the user retains full control.
R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS.