Analysing Patient Data

Overview

Teaching: 60 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• Intro to IDE

• How do I read data into R?

• How do I assign variables? (object-oriented programming)

• What is a data frame?

• How do I access subsets of a data frame?

• How do I calculate simple statistics like mean and median?

• Where can I get help?

• What is plotting

Objectives

• read data into R

• perform basic data operations

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Key Points

• data frames are the most common data type used in R

• R has built in functions for many common calculations and operations