First Steps with R in Life Sciences

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This course will be streamed only for registered participants. Registered participants will receive information from the course organizer in due time.

Overview

R is a complete, flexible and open source system for statistical analysis and graphics, which has become a tool of choice for biologists and biomedical scientists who need to analyse and visualise large amounts of data. Due to its popularity, R is continuously updated and extended with the latest libraries for data manipulation, modelling and visualisation.

This course will give an introduction to R and Rstudio (an integrated development environment for R) in an interactive manner. Participants will receive sample data sets to practise data manipulation, graphical exploration and statistical hypothesis testing.

Audience

This "First Steps with R" two-day course is addressed to beginners wanting to become familiar with the R syntax, environment, and the most common commands to start using R to explore and interpret their data.

Learning objectives

At the end of the course, participants should be comfortable with the R environment and be able to read, understand and write R commands, allowing them to implement and interpret a workflow for their data analysis:

• interact with the R environment
• import data, explore it and summarise it
• explore data with graphs
• perform simple statistical tests

Prerequisites

Knowledge / competencies

As this is a course for beginners, no background in R or any programming language is required. However, you are encouraged to go through some of the R documentation available here.

Please note that this course is NOT a training on statistics but rather a training on how to use R to perform different tasks, statistics being one of them.

Technical

A Wi-Fi enabled laptop with latest R and RStudio versions installed.

Application

This course is now full with a long waiting list. We therefore can't take any other applications.

Registration fees are **120 CHF ** for academics and 600 CHF for for-profit companies.

Deadline for registration and free-of-charge cancellation is set to 03 February 2021. Cancellation after this date will not be reimbursed. Please note that participation to SIB courses is subject to our general conditions.

You will be informed by email of your registration confirmation.

Venue and time

The course will start at 9:00 CET and end around 17:30 CET using Zoom. Precise information will be provided to the participants before the course.

Additional information

Coordination: Monique Zahn, SIB training group.

We will recommend 0.5 ECTS credits for this course (given a passed exam at the end of the course).

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