Course Description
This is an R literacy course for people who are not experts in programming. The course will introduce participants to the basic concepts of programming in R and how to perform simple descriptive statistics analysis using R.
Important Dates
Course date (group 1): 22-24 July 2024
Course date (group 2): 9-11 September 2024
Venue
This is an online course. The selected participants will receive a Zoom link to connect to the course.
Fee
This course is free of charge
Organisers
Anna Marabotti – Università di Salerno, ELIXIR-IT, Italy
Teresa Colombo, Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari (IBPM – CNR), ELIXIR-IT, Italy
Instructors
Teresa Colombo, Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari (IBPM – CNR), ELIXIR-IT, Italy
Fabiola De Marco, Università di Salerno, Italy
Helpers
Nancy D’Arminio, Università di Salerno, Italy
Resources and tools covered (max 50 words)
- R project: https://www.r-project.org/
- Rstudio
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, the participants will:
- Know what the R programming language is: areas of use and strengths
- Be able to code and be able to perform basic operations with R (e.g., importing data files into a data.frame; creating and extracting values from vectors, matrices, data.frames or lists; plotting)
- Know how to inspect and graphically represent in R basic statistical indicators (mean, median, distribution) of a numerical data set
- Possess a basic knowledge of R that makes it possible to go deeper if necessary
Course prerequisites
No prior understanding of programming and knowledge of R are required. It is mandatory to install R and Rstudio on the participants’ PC before starting the course.