One Day Workshop on "R Programming"
09th November 2019
A one-day workshop on 'R Programming' was organized at Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram, on 9th November, 2019. The workshop was organized by the Teaching Learning Centre (ICT) at IIT Bombay under the scheme of 'Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching' (PMMMNMTT), an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. 18 faculty members from Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram attended the workshop.
The workshop started with the inaugural address by Prof. Radhendushka Srivastava and Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, IIT Bombay. Prof. Srivastava explained R is a Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). He said R is a well-organized and sophisticated package that facilitates data analysis, modelling, inferential testing, and forecasting.
Later Prof. Kannan explained R is one of the most preferred open-source languages for analytics and data science. The cross-platform compatibility of R and its capacity to handle large and complex data sets makes it an ideal tool for academicians to analyse data in their labs. R can be used for simple calculations, matrix calculations, differential equations, optimization, statistical analysis, plotting graphs, etc.
R allows you to develop custom Artificial Intelligence Apps to deploy within your own organization. It has numerous packages that are used in the field of ML.
After inaugural session, participants started with the hands-on practice on R Programming and spoken tutorial forums in the lab. Participants also completed assignments where in their knowledge and understanding was tested. The videos were self-explanatory and well designed to be understood.
Topics covered in the workshop were : Introduction to basics of R, Introduction to data frames in R, Introduction to R Studio, Introduction to R script, Working Directories in R Studio, Indexing and Slicing Data Frames, Creating Matrices using Data Frames, Operations on Matrices and Data Frames, Merging and Importing Data, Data Types and Factors, Lists and its Operations, Plotting Histograms and Pie Chart, Plotting Bar Charts and Scatter Plot, Introduction to ggplot2, Aesthetic Mapping in ggplot2, Data Manipulation using dplyr Package, More functions in the dplyr Package, Pipe Operator, Conditional Statements, Functions in R.
The workshop ended with the one-hour Question/Answer Session with the Remote Centres through A-View in which Prof. Radhendushka Srivastava and Prof. Kannan Moudgalya along with his team answered all the questions put up by the teachers of various remote centres.
Overall, it was a knowledgeable workshop as it was a completely hands-on workshop.