Intro to R for Biologists ONLINE
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 to Wednesday, 06 April 2022, 9.30am - 1pm
***This course is fully booked*** This interactive online MSD Skills training course is aimed at MSD postgraduate research students and staff with minimal or no programming experience who want to perform basic data analysis in R and get familiar with programming environment.
You are expected to attend two sessions:
30 March @ 9.30 - 13.00
6 April @ 10.00 - 13.00
COURSE AIM
This course is aimed at those with minimal or no programming experience to perform basic data analysis in R and get familiar with the programming environment. By the end of this module, you will be able to explore your own data in R including basic statistics, plotting, and data reorganisation.
Please make sure you read all of the sections below relating to how the course will work, and the survey and attendance certificate policy.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course, you will learn:
how to set up your R environment, how to handle simple biological data, and how to look for help
how to load and clean your data and perform basic statistical analysis
how to reorganise and summarise your tabular data
how to create simple graphs to explore your data
COURSE FORMAT
The course is structured into 2 half-day sessions as follows:
Session 1 - Setting up your R environment, reading and writing data files, looking at and filtering the data
Session 2 - Data exploration - conditionals, loops, basic graphs and basic statistics, loading and installing packages
PARTICIPANT NUMBERS
25
HOW IT WILL WORK
It is highly recommended to go through the material up to and including the 'data types and structures' lesson on the R for Data Science LinkedIn course (https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-r-2/r-for-data-science) before the first session on 19th January. Access to this material is free through your Oxford single-sign on (SSO) account.
For each session, you will be sent a link along with joining instructions. Each 3-hour session would consist of a mix of teaching and hands-on training, with a feedback from the tutors and Q&A at the end. You are expected to interact with the instructors and other course participants during the sessions for problem-solving and assignments. The code and worksheets for this course will become available at the first session and can be accessed anytime during and after the course.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Software requirements:
• R (version 4.0 or higher) which you can download using this link.
• Rstudio (Desktop free version), which you can download, using this link: https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
Any installation questions could be addressed to courses@medsci.ox.ac.uk
Hardware requirements:
It is highly recommended to have an access to the microphone and ideally a second screen during the sessions.
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, which will be open for registration from the 2nd February.
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.
PLEASE NOTE
Where there is no cost in the shopping trolley, no deposit is required. However, more than two consecutive non-attendances or late cancellations without good reason will be logged and may mean you cannot attend any further MSD training that term. Please refer to our Terms and Conditions for further information.