Becker Medical Library and the Institute for Informatics are pleased to offer several introductory R workshops in October and November. These virtual introductory R workshops will provide background information about the R programming language, R packages and Bioconductor for R. Attendees will also learn how to use RStudio to run basic R code to explore, analyze and visualize data.
Registration is required to receive a Zoom link.
Introduction to R
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
10 – 11 a.m.
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- This workshop will cover R data objects and functions, basic data exploration, manipulation, and visualization, all using R base.
Introduction to R – Data Visualization in R Using ggplot2
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
10 – 11 a.m.
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- This workshop will cover installing, loading and managing R packages as well as basic data visualization using the ggplot2 package.
Introduction to R – Bioconductor
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
10 – 11 a.m.
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- This workshop will cover installing, loading and managing Bioconductor packages as well as basic genomic data exploration with the VariantAnnotation package.
Introduction to R – Visualization of COVID-19 Data Using R
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
10 – 11 a.m.
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- This workshop will explore the structure of publicly available COVID-19 data and methods to visualize the data with an aim to understand the disease epidemiology.
To learn more, visit the Research Computing Services website.