Introduction to data processing in R

Workshop outline

schedule Date & time
5 Apr 2017 10:30am - 6 Apr 2017 5:30pm
person Speaker
Marcin Adamski, RSB Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Unit (CBBU)

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Description

Workshop outline

  • Introduction to R and RStudio.
  • Data types in R, and type conversions.
  • Loading and saving tab and coma delimited files.
  • Basic data exploration including plotting.
  • Data sub-setting, filtering and joining.
  • Adding new columns with calculated values.
  • Detecting and handling errors an missing values in the data.
  • Designing an appropriate structure for a spreadsheet.
  • Programming - creating functions in R.

 

ANU bioinformatics workshops: Linux, NCI, R and Statistics

The ANU Bioinformatics Consultancy (ABC), ANU Statistical Consulting Unit (SCU) and RSB Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Unit (CBBU) are organising a series of workshops for students and staff of ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment.

The workshops will take place during the Semester 1 Teaching Break and will start at 9:30am, finish at 4:30pm with lunch break 12:30-1:30pm. 

You will need to bring your laptop. We have a few laptops which we can lend for the course of the workshops. Please inquire ahead.

To sign up please email marcin.adamski@anu.edu.au by 17 March, specifying the workshop(s) you would like to attend.

The workshops are offered at no cost. The number of places is limited and we will be giving priority to Honours and PhD students and postdocs.