This interactive online MSD Skills training course is aimed at MSD postgraduate research students and staff with some programming experience in R who want to expand their skills to create publication quality figures from biological data.
Course aim
This half-day course is aimed at intermediate users of R who want to visualise their data with ggplot2 and its extensions.
By the end of this session you will learn:
- How to visualise your data with ggplot2
- Perform statistical tests and add statistical information on the plot
- Use ggplot2 extensions
- Prepare plots suitable for publications
Software requirements:
The participants must have all required software (R, RStudio - https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/ , tidyverse - https://www.tidyverse.org ) installed on their computers. As this is a short course, we will not have time to troubleshoot software installation issues. So, please test that the packages are working well before the session.
Any installation questions could be addressed to courses@medsci.ox.ac.uk
Please email courses@medsci.ox.ac.uk to express an interest to attend this course.
PARTICIPANT NUMBERS
25
ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE ON SURVEY COMPLETION
In order to receive a certificate of attendance, participation in both sessions is mandatory. Once you have completed the course, you will be sent an email with a link to the overall course survey, where you can propose the topics, which you would like to be covered in a follow-up advanced module - Data analysis & visualisation in R.
When you have filled in and submitted the survey, you will be sent an email with a link to your attendance certificate. Survey results are downloaded and stored anonymously.
feedback from previous sessions
This was a very good introduction to ggplot2 for beginners of R.
I enjoyed the separation of a graphic package from the general R studio course
PPT introduction first then practical is really helpful