A Quick Introduction to R

Getting familiar with R

This course provides a quick introduction to R for those who are interested in exploring its capabilities before committing to a longer course.

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Instructors

Burkhard Steuernagel
Matthew Hartley

Audience

All Staff and Students

Overview

R is a software environment for statistical computing and graphics. For biologists, R is an excellent tool for data analysis providing a great range of statistical techniques and graph plotting capabilities. The statistics course will make use of R. This course will give a gentle introduction for people without prior knowledge.

Schedule

Day1

10:00	Start
11:00	Coffee break
13:00	End

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course you should be able to:

How to use R studio
How to find online help for R
Quickly loading, exploring and plotting tabular data
About basic data structures in R (Vector, Matrix, Data Frame)
How to create simple figures with R

Pre-requisites

None

Full course syllabus

Basic introduction to R
What is R
R Studio
Data types
Vectors
Matrices
Data Frames
Useful functions
Reading and writing files
The plot function in R

Course materials

Course book