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Basic R ( for PhD Students - Scienze Biomolecolari - Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli)

The OBiLab provides on-site courses on computational/biomolecular topics for prospective and practicing students and researchers in the life sciences. We also support courses on demand, customized for the needs of attendees.




This course aims to provide basic skills in R for people working in biological research. The course is not meant to be exhaustive but rather illustrate possibilities. It involves lectures and practical sessions and can accommodate a limited number of students. It is primarily reserved to PhD students of the Scienze Biomolecolari school at SUN. 

Max number of participants: 14
Course Language: English

Date: 28-29 /05 /2015,  10am-6pm

Deadline for Subscription: 20/05/2015         

Tutors: Enza Colonna

Credits: Teresa Nutile, Pasquale Elefante, Claudia Angelini, Roberto Sirica, Marianna Buonaiuto

Course Venue:
CED, first floor
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso"
via P.Castellino 111 - 80 131 Napoli

Course Fees:  Free
Cours Info : obilab@igb.cnr.it

Bring your laptop!  All sessions are practical 

Program

 Tue 28
Wed 29
10.00-13.00 basic R: What is R? - Installing R - R basic commands - Logical and Arithmetical Operators - Workspaces - Objects - Vectors, Arrays and matrices - Subsetting - Lists - Data Frame - Importing data - writing to a file - Basic graphs R for statistical analyses: Hypotesis testing in two popupations - Two sample Wilcoxon test - The paired T-test - The Matched-pairs Wilcoxon test - Simple (univariate) Regression - Linear Regression - Correlation Coefficient - Pearson correlation
15.00 - 18.00  R for statistical analyses: What is statistics? - Working with dataset into R - Descriptive statistics and graphics - Customized graphs and advanced graphs - Test on the mean of a population - T-Test - Wilcoxon signed-rank test

Examples of R packages ggplot2  - plyr - dplyr - qqplot