Online Basic R Course – A Free Course

February 4, 2014

Basic R tutorial in which a climate change analysis tool will be created using real meteorological data from the CRONOS database.

Objective

Create an R library able to retrieve weather data from the CRONOS (//www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/cronos) database and plot the following information for the selected weather stations:

Yearly accumulated rainfall.
Mean monthly rainfall.
Yearly mean of temperature across the years.
Yearly mean of the maximum temperature across the years.
Yearly mean of the minimum temperature across the years.
First occurrence of more than 25mm (1 Inch) of rainfall in less than 3 days after start of spring (begin of the rain season).
Number of days over 350C (950F) across all years.
Date of the first day with temperature <00C (320F) after begin of fall.
Date of the last day with temperature <00C (320F) until begin of spring.

Lectures

1 : Overview of the online basic R tutorial
1.1 Optional : Why should I learn R
2 : What is going to be covered
3 : Getting started (installation)
4 : Basic data manipulation
5 : Basic data manipulation 2
6 : Data manipulation exercise solving
7 : Data types
8 : Data types 2
9 : Import and export data with R
10 : Characters
11 : Date/Time
12 : Date/Time exercise solving
13 : Vectors
14 : Conditional statements

Instructor: Tiago Zortea

Price: Free

Code repository for the lectures

Class project : R library for climate change analysis using CRONOS weather data

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