Topic outline

  • First Steps with R in Life Sciences

    Bern, 19-20 April 2018

    University of Bern, room 331 / 3. OG West, Hochschulstrasse 4

    This page is addressed to registered participants. To access course description and application form, please click here.

    For any assistance, please contact training@sib.swiss.


    • Schedule

      Day 1 (9h-17h30):

      • Formatting your data
      • What is R ? Advantages and drawbacks
      • Getting familiar with R and RStudio environments
      • Getting started with R syntax and objetcs
      • Importing and exporting data with R

      Day 2 (9h-17h30):

      • Building graphics with base R (and ggplot2 package if time allows)
      • Practicing statistics hypothesis testing and simple linear regression in R

      Examples and exercises are integrated in the chapters.