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Thursday, 27 May, 2010 (20100527)

This week we are going to start working with your thesis data.  There are two scripts, one to export files from SAS in a variety of formats and the usual R code we will examine for the week.  We are going to start with how R "sees" and stores data.

Files

Here are the Slides  and the R script  and SAS script  for this session.  Plots  of the distributions (made in R script also)

Outline

Go through slides
Export data from SAS and Import into R
Simple conversion of data
Examining the data
    Data summary
    Graphically with ggplot2 (and a loop)

Learning Objectives

Understand data types and structures in R
Continued learning of ggplot2 grammar
Basic grasp of the concept of loops