Course detail

Welcome to R-course for beginners

Program: EB (Epidemiology and Biostatistics)

Description: This course provides students, researchers, and PhD candidates with a foundational introduction to coding in R. Over three days, participants will be guided through six modules of 3–4 hours each, combining short lectures with hands-on exercises and instructor support. The first two days consist of in-class lectures and exercises, where the last day is a full day of coding using everything learned during the course. 

The course covers essential topics, including:

• R syntax and fundamental functions
• Navigating RStudio
• Data handling and aggregation
• Creating plots and tables
• Writing functions and simple algorithms
• Using R’s help features and effective Google search strategies
• Basics of survival analysis
• Structuring a project in R
• And more

The course is designed for participants with no prior programming experience who wish to gain practical coding skills and apply R to their own projects or research.

Prerequisites: None

Form of evaluation: Evaluation by written report. Passed/failed.

Key literature/Requirements: 

Installation of R and R-studio,

R: https://cran.rstudio.com/

R-studio: https://posit.co/downloads/

Important information concerning PhD courses: There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.

We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

You may find more information in our FAQ: https://phd.moodle.aau.dk/local/page/faq 

For inquiries not described in the FAQ, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk. When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.