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Introduction to R - Practical workshop

Audience Computational skills required Duration
Biologists Completion of IntroR online resource 3-hour workshop (~3 hours of trainer-led time)

Description

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. This workshop requires prior completion of our Introduction to R online resource, developed in collaboration with Harvard Catalyst. This Introduction to R practical workshop will address questions regarding the content of the resource and provide practical exercises to practice your newly developed R skills.

Learning Objectives

Pre-requisites:

Complete all video lessons (requires Harvard Key log in) and work through all the code in the Introduction to R online resource: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/hcatrresource/

Installations

Download the most recent versions of R and RStudio:

Dataset

Download the R project and data for this workshop here. Decompress and move the folder to the location on your computer where you would like to perform the analysis.

Schedule

Time Topic Instructor
13:00 - 13:10 Introduction to workshop Radhika
13:10 - 14:00 Zoom polls, Q&A, Discussion All
14:00 - 14:15 R practical: Functions Emma
14:15 - 14:45 R practical: Wrangling Radhika
14:45 - 15:15 R practical: Plotting Emma
15:15 - 15:50 R practical: Comprehensive + Answer key Radhika
15:50 - 16:00 Wrap-up and exit poll Radhika

Answer Keys:

Questions?

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.