The second seminar on "Basic introduction to R" was held at Neuropsy Lab

Anastasia Liashenko, a team member of Laboratory for the Neurobiological Foundations of Cognitive Development, conducted the second introductory seminar on the basics of programming in R for beginners. The students get acquainted with the package for data visualization. The workshop covered plotting of basic graphs using ggplot2 package and the features of graph elements: adding the labels of axes and component legends, changing fonts, and choosing colors.

R is a programming language for statistical processing and analysis of data, as well as working with graphics. R is a free, open source computing environment that was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently developed by the R Development Core Team. R is named partly after the first names of the first two R authors. At the moment, R is widely used as statistical software for processing and analyzing data, and it has become the standard for modern statistical programs.