This course puts the participant in the right path to become a competent Data Scientist by teaching him/her the basics of R Language as one prominent tool in Data Science.

The course starts by introducing Data Science and the steps taken to complete a Data Science project. Then it continues with lectures on various methods and functions of R enabling the participant to start his/her journey towards becoming a Data Scientist with R.

In this course participants will learn how to install and configure R and RStudio. Besides, participants will be able to create various data structures such as Vectors, Matrices, Factors, Data Frames, and Lists. They will solve simple data problems using Operators, Conditional Statements, Loops, base and user-defined functions. Participants will understand and use different data gathering and manipulation methods such as getting and cleaning external files, the Apply family, Regular Expressions, Dates & Times, Base Plotting, and the dplyr package.