EEOB - 101 Introduction to R Statistical Software for Biologists

The ‘Introduction to R Statistical Software for Biologists’ micro-credential confirms learners are introduced to the structure, syntax, and programming skills associated with the R statistical software language. Students will gain familiarity and basic knowledge in data upload, data manipulation, and statistical analysis using R programming language and the integrative development environment, R Studio. Students who earn this badge will be able to use datasets for upload in R, refer to the column and row information in a dataset to confirm correct programming syntax, and execute programming commands in R.

Upon completion of this micro-credential, learners will be able to:

• Format files for upload into R Software using base R and/or R Studio
• Upload datasets into R and/or R Studio
• Execute basic programming commands using R statistical software.

• Submit a compilation of all programming inputs as a single program script with annotations and a document containing screenshots of all outputs organized chronologically.

• Programming Tools

• Data manipulation

• Data management

• Statistical analysis