Chapter 1 Introduction

Welcome to QFAB’s Data prepration, processing and reporting with R workshop. This manual contains all the exercises that you will do during this workshop. There will be hints, tips and examples along the way.

The format of the workshop will be that we will introduce a topic with some examples, and then set you some practical exercises to carry out. We hope that you will be able to complete these exercises using just the information that you have learnt in the workshop in combination with the R help functions. If you do get stuck though, you will find example answers to all of them at the back of this manual. Please use these examples as a guide and reference rather than just a solution: don’t just copy the code, but think about what each line is doing and see if you can come up with a better way.