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ELIXIR node event R for Biologists

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Date: 15 - 17 January 2025

This course aims to introduce participants to the statistical computing language ‘R’ using examples and skills relevant to biological data science. This online workshop is taught by experienced Edinburgh Genomics trainers. By the end of the workshop, you will be comfortable with the basics of the R and R Studio environments, learning about the rules of the language and how R works with different data types and structures. We then move on to using functions, introducing a selection of packages for biological data science including the ‘Tidyverse’ family of packages. Finally, we will learn how to visualise your data to generate publication-ready plots using the package ggplot2.

Keywords: R, Rstudio, Statistics, Tidyverse, ggplot2

Prerequisites:

This is an introductory level course: no prior experience of R is necessary before starting the workshop.

Learning objectives:

  • Data Importing and cleaning
  • Data manipulation and subsetting
  • Data structures
  • Data visualisation with ggplot2
  • Discussion/data clinic
  • Interactive plots
  • Introduction to R
  • Introduction to basic plotting and ggplot2
  • R object, variable, and data types (character, integer, etc)
  • R resources: cheat sheets, help
  • Rstudio, R markdown

Organizer: Edinburgh Genomics

Target audience: Graduates, postgraduates, and PIs, who are using, or planning to use, the statistical software R to manipulate and analyse NGS and other data in their research. This is an introductory level course: no prior experience of R is necessary before starting the workshop.

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