Introduction to R

Audience Computational skills required Duration
Biologists None 1-day workshop (~ 5.5 hours of trainer-led time)

Description

This repository has teaching materials for a hands-on Introduction to R workshop. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of R and RStudio. R is a simple programming environment that enables the effective handling of data, while providing excellent graphical support. RStudio is a tool that provides a user-friendly environment for working with R.

These materials are intended to provide both basic R programming knowledge and its application for increasing efficiency for data analysis.

These materials are developed for a trainer-led workshop, but also amenable to self-guided learning.

Learning Objectives

  1. R syntax: Understand the different ‘parts of speech’.
  2. Data types structures in R: Describe the various data types and data structures.
  3. Data inspection and wrangling: Demonstrate the utilization of functions and indices to inspect and subset data from various data structures.
  4. Visualizing data: Demonstrate the use of the ggplot2 package to create plots for easy data visualization.

Lessons

Click here for link to lessons and suggested schedule

Installation Requirements

Download the most recent versions of R and RStudio for the appropriate OS using the links below:

Dataset

All the files used for the above lessons are linked within, but can also be accessed here.

These materials have been developed by members of the teaching team at the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core (HBC). These are open access materials distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.