ACTL1101 - Introduction to Actuarial Studies

R Programming Content

Overview

Welcome to the website for the R content of the UNSW course “ACTL1101: Introduction to Actuarial Studies”! I hope you enjoy your stay.

While R programming has been taught as part of ACTL1101 for many years, this website is new from 2025. Hence, I would appreciate any feedback you have on this content. In particular, if you spot typos/bugs/errors, please alert me on the course discussion forum, or by email at g.boglioni@unsw.edu.au.

xxx

Gilly

References

The course slides often makes reference to specific pages from the following book:

• Lafaye de Micheaux P, Drouilhet R and Liquet B (2013), The R Software: Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis, Springer, New York

This book serves as the main (though not only) reference for the R content of ACTL1101. While you can buy a hard copy of this book at the UNSW bookshop, it is also downloadable for free at the following link (you may have to enter your UNSW credentials to access it).

Contents

• Week 1: Introduction to R
• Week 2: Data structures, importation and exportation
• Week 3: Control flows and functions
• Week 4: Data manipulation and statistical analysis
• Week 5: Data visualisation
• Week 6: Work strategy
• Week 7: Algorithms and pseudocode
• Week 8: Visualisation with ggplot2