Introduction to R Statistical System

R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation, and graphical display that is particularly useful for psychological scientists. This workshop will assume no prior knowledge of R and will emphasize standard functions for analysis and display of experimental and correlational data for classroom and research. Time will be devoted to loading data directly or from other systems (e.g., SPSS, SAS, Excel) and to finding basic descriptive and inferential statistics. The examples will be applied to the participants’ own data sets. A short introduction to programming in R will be included to help understand the use of contributed packages, their functions and the objects they return. A few examples will be worked through in detail to help understand the use of the many options available for each function and to give the participants confidence in exploring some of the many other packages and functions available to users of R.