Summer School on "R Programming"
10th June - 18th July 2019
Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram organized six weeks summer training on "R Programming" from 10th June - 18th July 2019. Ms. Karanvir Kaur, Assistant Professor, CSE Department taught the basics of R Programming and its importance.
On the basis of pre-qualifying test on Programming language (C/C++) students from CSE, IT and CSIT Department were shortlisted for the programme.
Ms. Karanvir described R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. R and its libraries implement a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, including linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, and others.
She explained the capabilities of R programming are extended through user-created packages, which allow specialised statistical techniques, graphical devices, import/export capabilities, reporting tools, etc. These packages are developed primarily in R, and sometimes in Java, C, C++, and Fortran. The R packaging system is also used by researchers to create compendia to organise research data, code and report files in a systematic way for sharing and public archiving.
Next she explained a core set of packages is included with the installation of R, with more than 15,000 additional packages available at the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), Bioconductor, Omegahat, GitHub, and other repositories.
This was a certification-based training hence, all the students who qualified the exam at the end of the training as well as weekly test during the training got there certificates.