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This webpage contains material that is taught at the Consolidation of R programming skills course at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg (FAU). The course is tied together with the international Paleobiology program at the FAU.

More information about the course can be found at palaeobiology.nat.fau.de.

Material

The course is building on some basic knowledge of computers and R. For totally uninitiated, it is recommended to go through the Computers in Geosciences course first.

The material itself is integrated into the R-kheion, a continuously-developed comprehensive online R course. Both study and exercise material can be found there.

Everything found on this webpage is licensed with CC-BY 4.0.

Iterations

Year Dates Instructors Material
2026 Oct. 12 - Febr. 1 Ádám Kocsis Material of the 2026 course
2025 Oct. 13 - Febr. 3 Ádám Kocsis, Rachel Warnock Material of the 2025 course
2024 Oct. 14 - Febr. 4 Ádám Kocsis, Rachel Warnock Material of the 2024 course
2023 Oct. 17 - Febr. 7 Ádám Kocsis, Rachel Warnock Material of the 2023 course
2022 Oct. 18 - Febr. 8 Ádám Kocsis, Rachel Warnock Material of the 2022 course