Introduction

This site contains the materials for a short training session introducing R, a programming language for statistical data analysis, run by the Bioinformatics Core facility at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Description

R is one of the leading programming languages in Data Science and the most widely used within CRUK CI for interacting with cancer biology data sets.

In this training course, we aim to provide a very brief introduction to R aimed at cancer scientists who would like to be better able to manipulate, visualize and analyze their data.

Schedule

  1. Getting set up - install R, RStudio and the tidyverse packages in advance of the training session

  2. Introduction to R - get acquainted with some key concepts with working in R

  3. Working with tabular data - a whistle-stop tour of some of the most commonly used operations for manipulating and visualizing tabular data in R

  4. Next steps - where to go next in our R learning journey