{"id":3296,"date":"2017-05-23T18:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekosas.com\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:05:39","slug":"i-will-teach-an-r-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekosas.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/23\/i-will-teach-an-r-course\/","title":{"rendered":"I will teach an R course."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The course will be at Microsoft Chile on September 22:<\/p>\n<p>The R Intensive is an event designed for those who have data analysis and modeling needs in their work and want to gain in 1 day the theoretical and practical knowledge to start solving their analytical challenges with this tool. We will cover the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Installing R<\/strong>: R, RStudio and R packages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fundamentals of the R language<\/strong>: Syntax, control flow, objects, vector notation, data.frame<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data acquisition<\/strong>: From sources such as CSV, XLSX files, databases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Common functions and packages<\/strong>: Use of functions, vectorization, typical functions, creating functions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Graphics with R<\/strong>: Creating data visualizations with the most common libraries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Models with R<\/strong>: Regressions, Clustering, Decision trees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets at: <a href=\"https:\/\/welcu.com\/metric-learning\/intensivo-r?utm_source=directory\"><a href=\"https:\/\/welcu.com\/metric-learning\/intensivo-r?utm_source=directory\">https:\/\/welcu.com\/metric-learning\/intensivo-r?utm_source=directory<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The course will be at Microsoft Chile on September 22: The R Intensive is an event designed for those who have data analysis and modeling <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekosas.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/23\/i-will-teach-an-r-course\/\" title=\"I will teach an R course.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geekosas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/RStudio-Ball.png?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8vjqF-Ra","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3243,"url":"https:\/\/geekosas.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/comparison-between-julia-python-and-r\/","url_meta":{"origin":3296,"position":0},"title":"Comparison between Julia, Python, and R","author":"Daniel Fischer","date":"2026-05-09","format":false,"excerpt":"The discussion about which language is best for data analysis can lead to conversations more passionate than topics like religion or politics. 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