In this workshop, you will be provided with a friendly but comprehensive introduction to R. It is intended to provide people who are new to R with all the basics and fundamentals that they need to get up and running with R so that they can use it on a regular basis. No prior experience with R is necessary. All we will assume is a familiarity with statistics typical of someone with a undergrad, or higher, degree in psychology or related discipline.

This workshop is free to anyone who is a member of any of the following three British Psychological Society sections:

• Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing section

• Cognitive Psychology section

• Developmental Psychology section

The schedule is as follows:

• 9:00-9:30: Registration; tea & coffee
• 9:30-10:00: What is R and why should you care
• 10:00-10:30: A guided tour of RStudio
• 10:30-11:00: Introducing R commands
• 11:00-11:30: Variables, vectors, functions
• 11:30-12:30: Writing R scripts
• 12:30-13:30: Lunch (provided)
• 13:30-14:00: Reading in and viewing data
• 14:00-14:30: Summarizing data
• 14:30-15:30: Plots and data visualiztion
• 15:30-16:30: Linear regression, general linear models
• 16:30-17:30: Anova (one-way, factorial, repeated measures)

You will be required to bring your own laptop with R, RStudio, and some R packages installed.

GitHub resources

Further resources for this training course can be found on Github at mark-andrews/bps-introduction-to-R.