R Code Mastery: Empowering Your Programming Skills with AI Code Generation Assistant

Date: 3 Sep 2024 (Tue) & 10 Sep 2024 (Tue)

Time: 14:30 - 16:30

Venue: M403 / Online

Target Audience: All students

Medium of Instruction: English

**Participants are required to join both sessions (2.0 hrs x 2).

What You Will Learn

1. Understand the installation and user interface of RStudio (integrated development environment (IDE) for the R programming language)
2. Understand the fundamental R programming concepts and operations, which are essential skills for data science professionals
3. Load and save data in R with various file formats and familiarize with managing data frames.
4. Write R code with AI Code Generation Assistant (PolyU GenAI). Learn the prompt engineering techniques with natural language for easy programming of R.
5. Hands-on coursework will be provided to practise your skill.
6. Utilization of Student HPC Platform throughout the workshop

Agenda

1. Mandatory concept of R programming
- Overview of R programming language
- Installation and introduction to RStudio IDE
- R Packages
- Variables & Data Types
- Basic string operations
- Basic operators
- Prompt engineering techniques with natural language for easy programming of R

2. Basic concept of R programming
- Data structures
- Control structures
- Decision making
- Loops
- Functions
- Load/Save Data in R
- Managing data frames
- Prompt engineering techniques with natural language for easy programming of R