PhD course in R programming

• Course: PhD course in R programming

• Teachers: Nicolas Reigl, Indrek Seppo

• Class Times:

Fri. 9	Feb. 17:45-21:00	Sat. 10	Feb. 10:00-13:15
Fri. 16	Feb. 17:45-21:00	Sat. 17	Feb. 10:00-13:15
Fri. 2	Mar. 17:45-21:00	Sat. 3	Mar. 10:00-13:15
Fri. 9	Mar. 17:45-21:00	Sat. 10	Mar. 10:00-13:15

• Class Location: SOC- 417, Department of Economics and Finance, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 3, Tallinn.

Course Description

This is a course for PhD students at the Department of Economics and Finance in introductory R programming.

Course Overview

The course will cover everything needed to start working in R on your own.

Topics

• The basics of R and Rstudio
• Grammar of graphics - ggplot2
• Grammar of data manipulation - dplyr
• R markdown
• Basic econometric modelling in R

Topics will be demonstrated through live-code examples/slides, available through this repository.

Teaching materials

1. Download the class slides by clicking the green Clone or download button above. (Then click Download Zip in the tab that appears).

Evaluation

There will be no exam and no points given for the seminar course.

Prerequisites

1. You need a laptop. No programming skills required.