Introduction to R

Objectives

  • Understand basic R commands
  • Learn how to use the RStudio interface
  • Understand the use of R functions
  • Be able to perform simple data manipulations
  • Be able to create basic visualizations

Course Content

I. Introduction

  • Getting started with the RStudio environment
  • Programming best practices
  • Different types and classes of variables
  • Functions

II. Data manipulation with the tidyverse

  • Logical operators
  • Working with data frames

III. Visualization with ggplot2

  • Principles
  • Simple examples

Prerequisites

  • None

Duration

  • 1,5 days / 11 hours

Fees

  • Academics Nantes Université: 354 euros
  • Others academics: 408 euros
  • Private sector: 978 euros

Teaching Methods

  • Combination of lectures and practical exercises.

Instructors

  • Bioinformatics engineers from BiRD

Validation

Certificate of attendance provided to each participant on request

Registration

Register Here (except for PhD students - via Amethis)