<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>RCourse2015</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2015-01-28 15:33:29</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2015-01-28 15:32:59</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2015-01-28 15:32:48</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2015-01-28 15:31:12</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>R Training Day (Beginners)</title><para>Tuesday 31st March 2015, CBSU West Wing Seminar Room, 9am to 5pm. </para><para>R is a free-to-use software environment for statistical analysis. It is being increasingly used for a range of analyses from the simple (descriptives) through to Bayesian and structural equation modeling. This course is for complete beginners who are new to R  but might be interested in using it for their work. It will include how to use key structures in R such as vectors, data types and functions to perform statistical analysis and data manipulations and also give a taster of its powerful plotting capabilities. </para><para>This hands-on course will include laptop sessions to practice understanding of concepts and will be led by Simon White and Adam Wagner of the University of Cambridge who are experienced R users and teachers. It will take place in the West Wing Seminar Room and will last from 9am to 5pm. A questionnaire will also be circulated to those attending to gauge further interest. </para><para>You can register to take part via this Doodle poll: <ulink url="http://doodle.com/7v9emx35963tqc3s"/> </para></section></article>