Introduction to R
>eR-BioStat
About the course
Reference list…
Many R books are available online for free. The website R Software reference lists links for many free books that were developed as a textbook for beginners. The R studio books website offer many free books at all levels for different applications.
The books contain illustrations and R code from a basic level of R usage to more advanced examples.
The following topics from our course are covered by the books :
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Basic concept of R.
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Basic programming.
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Data visualization.
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Inference and Modeling.
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The tidyverse package.
The link to the websites:
General information about the course:
The course is developed at an introductory level and we assume no previous experience with R and only a basic knowledge in statistics. The course was developed to give the student the basic skills needed to use R for data analysis. We cover only basic concepts in data management and visualisation using ggplot2. You can find another course devoted to ggplot2 and and visualisation in the >eR-BioStat website.
The Course materials include
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Slides.
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R program for the examples presented in the course.
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Datasets that are used for illustration are both R datasets and external datasets which available online.
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Online interactive book.
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Links for YouTube tutorials are available in both slides and the online book. Note that these tutorials were not developed especially for this course but they cover the same topics, usually with different examples.
As a student in the course, you can choose between two study methods:
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If you prefer the traditional slides approach, you can click on the button Topics In the main menu bar . This will take you to a page with 4 chapters that cover all topics in the course. Each chapter has its own slides presentation and a R program contains all the examples used in the course and presented in the slides is available as well.
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If you prefer a more interactive study style, clink on the button Online book in the main menu bar that will take you to the page with an online interactive book that was written for the course. The interactive book covers the topics of basic programming and modelling and basic concepts of tidyverse. Note that the slides presentations and the book cover the same materials and the interactive book include the slides as well.