This course material is part of the "First Steps with R in Life Science" two-day course of SIB Training and 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.
This course material provides an introduction to R and Rstudio (an integrated development environment for R) in an interactive manner. It contains example data-sets to practise data manipulation, graphical exploration and statistical hypothesis testing.
To follow this course, make sure you have R and Rstudio installed beforehand.
The course material is organized in parts corresponding to the 2 days of the course.
The slides provided contain both theory and hands-on practice session instructions.
The data used in the practicals can be found in the data course_datasets/ folder, and
solutions codes can be found in the solutions/ folder (NB: practise session 1 and 2 do not have associated code).
- Day 1 slides covers the most basic aspects
- first contact with the language and software
- most common data types in R
- reading and writing data files with R
- Day 2 - morning slides discusses visualization in R and how to create and customize simple, yet efficient, graphics from your data
- Day 2 - afternoon slides introduces how to perform statistical analysis in R (be warned: this is not a statistics course and only aims to show how the language deals with it)
If you enjoyed this course or found it beneficial and want to refer to it, please cite it as :
Duchemin, W., Di Cola, V., Mehl, F., Marzetta, F., Marek, D., & Tran, T. V. D. (2024, February 15). First steps with R in Life Sciences - course material. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6091478