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title: "Introduction to R and Rstudio"
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## Agenda - session one (about 3.5 hours)

Chapter overview

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Introduction and getting started
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Importing data
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Introduce features of coding
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## Agenda - session two (about 3.5 hours)

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Manipulating data
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Finding help
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## Agenda - session three (about 3.5 hours)

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Introducing {ggplot2} for data visualisations
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Further useful functions from packages to clean data
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## Course Aims

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-   To introduce RStudio as an IDE (integrated development environment)
-   Introduce familiar concepts of data manipulation but using R
-   Practice these concepts and bring them together in a Quarto report
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## Reasons to use R

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-   [Community](https://nhsrcommunity.slack.com)
-   [Collaboration](https://github.com/nhs-r-community)
-   [Open coding](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-broader-safer-using-health-data-for-research-and-analysis/better-broader-safer-using-health-data-for-research-and-analysis)
-   [Reproducible Analytical Pipelines](https://analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/support/reproducible-analytical-pipelines/)
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