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The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the programming language R. After completing and attending this workshop; the attendees should be be able to:
- describe the primary purpose of R
- compare the similarities and dissimilarities between a spreadsheet and R
- describe factors to the success R and the reasons why it has been adopted with DataSHIELD
- appreciate and describe the characteristics of imperative and functional programming languages
- explain and make appropriate use of some variables
- use R Studio to write some basic R scripts
- manipulate some lists, vectors and data frame in R
- choose and use some functions for a specific purpose
- understand the concepts of libraries
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