From Excel To R

Content

From Excel to R is an introductory course targeted towards people with no (or very limited) experience in R. 

• To ensure that the participants will have a solid understanding of the practicals before diving into using the R language itself, we will have an introduction to: Rstudio, directory paths, scripts, R-projects, help functions, shortcuts. 
  
  
• Then, the course will focus on the R-frameworks packages and functions such as: tidyverse, syntax for data-wrangling.
  
  
• After learning about tidyverse, the user will be ready to dig in to the world of plots and visualization with ggplot2

At the end of the course, the participants  will test out their newly acquired skills in data wrangling and visualization on an example of basic applied statistics in R, simultaneously introducing them to the strength of R as a statistical programming language.
The participants will be also introduced to R Markdown for reproducible report in R.

Learning Outcome

The learning outcome of the course is to provide attendees with the basic skills for manipulating and setting up data for visualization and analysis in R.

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

Define and explain the use of basic programming concepts in the scripting language R.       

• Perform data wrangling/data management tasks using the tidyverse framework;
• Visualize data and results of analysis with the ggplot2 package;
• Understand the use of tidyverse and ggplot2 in the context of applied statistics/bioinformatics in R;
• Demonstrate best practice when working in R, importantly in regard to generating reproducible scientific results with R Markdown.