The
workshop on R software was held at The University of Jordan during April
28- May 2,
2019 in Atheer Center, provided by Dr.
Danute Krapavickaite according to the agreement
between The University
of Jordan and Vilnius Gediminan Technical University
under
the Erasmus Plus Program. Approximately 20 participants from facult
members
and Ph.D. students attended the workshop.
The R software is an integrated programming language and working
environment
for data handling,calculation, modelling, graphical representation.
It consists of collection of packages for different purposes.
They are placedon
the web pages Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) all over the world.
The main
topics covered in this workshop were involving:
- Manipulation
with numbers, vectors and matrices
- Objectsand their attributes
- Graphical procedures
- Probability distributions
- Analysis of a statistical
data set
- Programming elements
The
expected outcome of this workshop is to enable the faculty and graduate
students
to carry out intensive numerical computations and simulations that
support their research works.


