NUS Workshop on Business Analytics with R and R Commander (Rcmdr)

July 29 (W), 31 (F) and August 3 (M) 2015; 10:00-13:00 hrs [BIZ 1, Excellence-2 (2-1)]

Mahmut Parlar [Home page]

(DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada)

Cellphone use policy

We will start the workshop by justifying the use of R and Rcmdr in business analytics. The following three sessions will cover details of the most important topics.

• Before downloading any of the datasets, you should create a folder (preferably under "My Documents") and give it a name similar to the dataset.
• Save your dataset to the folder you created.
• After starting Rcmdr, click "File > Change Working Directory..." and point at the folder you have created for that dataset.
• Any files you save from within Rcmdr will then appear in the folder you have created.

Why R and R Commander?

Session 1. Introduction to R and R Commander (Rcmdr) and R functions for basic statistical models

Session 2. R functions for multiple regression and its ramifications

Session 3. Hierarchical and k-means cluster analysis with R