The Cryosphere Initiative is collaborating closely with national partners in the HKH region, contributing to developing and maintaining cryosphere monitoring programmes and providing technical backstopping. This training is being organized to enhance the data analysis skills of the collaborating partners. Participation is by invitation only.

Why R?

ICIMOD promotes open-source software, standardized methodologies, and regional collaboration. R is an open-access and free software and has a wide global community with millions of active users. Users can access thousands of statistical, mathematical, and graphical functions. There are online forums to help troubleshoot and understand R-related problems.

Through the software, it is possible to generate high-quality graphics that can be used in academic reports. R scripts are easily automated and compatible with any system (Windows, Linux, Mac), which makes them suitable for promoting reproducible research.

Training resources

Before the training, participants are requested to download and install R from www.cran.r-project.org and R Studio from www.rstudio.com