Prerequisites
This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience.
Content
In this course you will learn how to read and manipulate data using basic R and tidyverse packages followed by data visualization with ggplot2.
- Basic information about syntax for the R programming language
- The RStudio interface
- Importing CSV files
- Structure of data frame objects, categorical variables (i.e. factors), basic data manipulation (adding/removing rows and columns)
- Calculating summary statistics
- Introduction to plotting
Instructors & Helpers
Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze, Huber Group, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
Wasiu Akanni, Bork Group, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
Renato Alves, Bio-IT, de.NBI, Gibson Team, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
Nicolas Descostes, EMBL Rome Bioinformatics Services, Italy.
Sarah Kaspar, CSDA, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Mike Smith, Bork/Huber/Korbel/Zeller Group/Team, de.NBI, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
Jakob Wirbel, Zeller Team, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
Schedule
The course is distributed across four mornings:
Tuesday, 23. February 2021, 10:00 – 13:00 CET
Wednesday, 24. February 2021, 10:00 – 13:00 CET
Thursday, 25. February 2021, 10:00 – 13:00 CET
Friday, 26. February 2021, 10:00 – 13:00 CET
Affiliation
This Bio-IT course is sponsored by de.NBI, the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure and is the result of a collaboration between EMBL Rome Bioinformatics Services and the Gibson Team
Bookings
❗ This event is fully booked. ❗