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R For SAS Users

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Course Report - R For SAS Users

Course Report

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Course Features

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Duration

4 hours

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

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Video Content

4 hours

Course Description

This course is designed for SAS users who are looking to learn R. R is open-source (free) and free for anyone with an existing SAS knowledge. It is also the most popular software language for statistics and data science. This course is a gentle introduction to R. Each chapter describes the relationship between SAS procedures, and R functions, as well as the differences. This course will allow you to get familiar with R. Learn how to visualize, model, and manipulate data. The course will follow a consistent workflow: data quality checks, cleaning, exploring relationships, and modeling results. This course will give you coded examples that you can use to create a template you can use immediately with your data.

Course Overview

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Virtual Labs

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International Faculty

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Hands-On Training,Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Learn how to translate your SAS knowledge into R and analyze data using this free and powerful software language

You will learn how to work with one of the most versatile data object types in R called a list

You'll learn how to create and modify variables in the abalone data set. Using your ggplot2 visualization skills, you will discover the data errors in the abalone data and then create a final cleaned data set ready for analysis and modeling

You'll learn how to get help, load a dataset, and increase functionality by adding packages

Course Instructors

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Melinda Higgins

Research Professor, Senior Biostatistician

Melinda Higgins, PhD @mhiggins2000 is an avid R user, advocate and instructor. She originally learned S and then transitioned to R in the mid 1990's. She has over 25 years experience as a research sc...
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