2026-03-23

Free ACENET Training: R for Social Scientists

The following online training may be of interest to faculty and students, and is free of charge. Registration is through our training portal — https://www.acenet.training/courses 

 R for Social Scientists

31 March and 2 April, 1300-1600hrs Atlantic | 1330-1630hrs NL

R allows you to analyze data in a reproducible, script-based way, so you and others can efficiently rerun and check your work. It’s powerful for importing, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data of any size, and is free, open-source, and widely used in research workflows. In this Data Carpentry-based workshop, we will explore data analysis and visualization with R. Beginning with basic R syntax and the R Studio notebook interface, topics include how to import CSV files, the structure of data frames, how to deal with factors, how to add/remove rows and columns, how to calculate summary statistics from a data frame, and a brief introduction to plotting. Finally, we will demonstrate how to work with databases directly from R. Though the examples used in the workshop will be specific to the field of Social Sciences, the techniques and principles covered are applicable to a wide variety of research areas. 

No previous experience with digital tools or programming is required for this workshop.