Facts
Time: 2010-02-15 08:00 - 2010-02-18 17:00
City: Uppsala
Location: Mar 4 (markhuset)
Organiser: Focus on Soils and Water
Last signup date: 31 December 2010
Additional info:
City: Uppsala
Location: Mar 4 (markhuset)
Organiser: Focus on Soils and Water
Last signup date: 31 December 2010
Additional info:
1.MS Access:
* Conceptualise your data and design a database;
* Implement a relational database in MS Access to store your data;
* Retrieve or subset your data, with MS Access queries;
* Create elementary forms to fill and view the data;
2.R programming:
* Elementary R programming;
* Import / export data in / from R (from text files, csv file, excel and Access);
* Create and customise graphics / plots in R;
* Use R’s standard statistical functionalities (quick overview);
* Manipulate and process data in R:
* Arithmetic / statistical / logical operations in R;
* Create your own functions (customized operations or plots);
* Use loops (i.e. batch computing) and other programming tricks;
The course will be based on 3 simple example dataset: a dataset of soil profiles description / analysis, a time series of pesticide monitoring in surface water and a dataset of results from modelling of solute transport in soil.