Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is a short follow-up to the announcement video on the new Stellenbosch University short course on R for healthcare and life science statistics starting next week. It contains some logistics for those that are, or have, signed up.
The link to sign up is at at https://shortcourses.sun.ac.za/application-form.html?offeringid=6cc261b2-45da-eb11-abe4-005056801c40
To dowload R go to cran.r-project.org and follow the links for your operating system.
Once you have installed R, go to rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download to dowload and install RStudio, the coding environment that we will use during this course. All the rquired study files will be send to those that sign up.
You can also run RStudio in the cloud. Sign up for a free account at https://rstudio.cloud If you want to go this route, a link will be sent to you after signing up to this course. The email link will take you to your RStudio account in the cloud (make sure that you are signed in) and provide a copy of all the study files.
The following R packages are used in the course:
data.table
DT
tidyverse
knitr
car
gmodels
Looking forward to seeing you.
This is a short follow-up to the announcement video on the new Stellenbosch University short course on R for healthcare and life science statistics starting next week. It contains some logistics for those that are, or have, signed up.
The link to sign up is at at https://shortcourses.sun.ac.za/application-form.html?offeringid=6cc261b2-45da-eb11-abe4-005056801c40
To dowload R go to cran.r-project.org and follow the links for your operating system.
Once you have installed R, go to rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download to dowload and install RStudio, the coding environment that we will use during this course. All the rquired study files will be send to those that sign up.
You can also run RStudio in the cloud. Sign up for a free account at https://rstudio.cloud If you want to go this route, a link will be sent to you after signing up to this course. The email link will take you to your RStudio account in the cloud (make sure that you are signed in) and provide a copy of all the study files.
The following R packages are used in the course:
data.table
DT
tidyverse
knitr
car
gmodels
Looking forward to seeing you.










