Course: STAT 27815=STAT 37815
Title: Practical R Programming
Instructor(s): Ryan McShane
Teaching Assistant(s): TBA
Class Schedule: Sec 1: MW 1:30 PM-3:20 PM in Jones 226
Description: This course covers a practical set of skills vital to modern statistics and data science in handling messy, real-world data. Students will get a foundation in version control and practice expressing themselves with literate programming. They will think algorithmically with base R objects, control flow, functions, and iteration. The course will also introduce students to a variety of tidyverse data wrangling methods to import, clean, transform, join, and summarize their data. Finally, students will visualize and explore data using the grammar of graphics framework. Other introductory topics may be discussed. No programming experience is required, although some may be helpful.