R introduction (interest survey)

Sunday 31 Dec 2023, 00:01 → 23:59 Europe/Brussels

The purpose of this event is for us to know the number of people interested in the R introduction courses given by the bioinformatics plateform.
Regarding the number of preregister, we might plan new session more or less quickly.

NB: Groups of 6 people already constituted  and interested by this training can contact by email the Bioinformatics Platform to schedule a private session.

! Please, do not take care of the date of the event !

Course presentation

Summary

This course is an introduction to the basics in R, one of the leading programming language in data science. In this course you will learn how to program in R and how to use R for data analysis in biomedical science. The course will cover the basics of R programming such as R’s objects, data types and functions. It will introduce you to data manipulation, plotting functions, and briefly, to classical statistical tests and R packages. You will learn how to import/export data as well as how to combine, sort and filter your R objects to wrangle, analyze and visualize data. Rather than covering every R skill you might need, you will build a strong foundation to build on. The course will start with a brief introduction lecture. After that, lessons will consist in demo directly in R intermingled with practical exercises for the students.

Aim of the course

To provide an introduction to R language.

By the end of the course, the participants should be able to

   - Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of R language.
   - Describe the basics of R syntax.
   - Describe the basic R programming concepts such as data types, vectors and matrices.
   - Perform operations in R such as creating or importing data frame and other objects as well as
     combining, sorting and subsetting these objects.
   - Make different kinds of plots.
   - Perform basic programming with R.

Target group

Scientists with little to no R-programming experience who wish to start using R for their data manipulation, data exploration or statistical analysis.

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of English. Participants need to bring their laptop with a recent R and RStudio version properly installed.

Duration of the course

Location

Educators

David Stern (GIGA Bioinformatics Platform, ULiège).