Training courses: Statistics and data manipulation with R (Group 2)

Course Description

This is an R literacy course for people who are not experts in programming. The course will introduce participants to the basic concepts of programming in R and how to perform simple descriptive statistics analysis using R.

Important Dates

Course date (group 1): 22-24 July 2024
Course date (group 2): 9-11 September 2024

Venue

This is an online course. The selected participants will receive a Teams link to connect to the course. IMPORTANT: The course is full. It is no longer possible to register!

Fee

This course is free of charge

Organisers

Anna Marabotti – Università di Salerno, ELIXIR-IT, Italy
Teresa Colombo, Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari (IBPM - CNR), ELIXIR-IT, Italy

Instructors

Teresa Colombo, Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari (IBPM - CNR), ELIXIR-IT, Italy
Fabiola De Marco, Università di Salerno, Italy

Helpers

Nancy D’Arminio, Università di Salerno, Italy

Contact

For all kinds of queries, please contact the organiser Anna Marabotti at: amarabotti@unisa.it or please write to: elixir.ita.training@gmail.com.

Target audience

The course is designed for young researchers belonging to the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB), who have no prior knowledge of programming and R.

Resources and tools covered

R project: https://www.r-project.org/
Rstudio :https://posit.co/downloads/

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, the participants will:

Know what the R programming language is: areas of use and strengths
Be able to code and be able to perform basic operations with R (e.g., importing data files into a data.frame; creating and extracting values from vectors, matrices, data.frames or lists; plotting)
Know how to inspect and graphically represent in R basic statistical indicators (mean, median, distribution) of a numerical data set
Possess a basic knowledge of R that makes it possible to go deeper if necessary

Course prerequisites

No prior understanding of programming and knowledge of R are required. It is mandatory to install R and Rstudio on the participants’ PC before starting the course.

Programme

The detailed programme and the material of the course will be provided to the participants via e-mail before the starting of the course. The organization of the course will be as following:

Monday - 09 September
10:00 - 11:00	Verification of the correct installation of R and Rstudio on participants' computers
11:00 - 13:00	Module 1. Topics: The R programming language; the DataCamp learning platform; Vectors in R.
14:00 - 18:00	Vectors in R, Factors in R.
Tuesday - 10 September
09:00 - 13:00	Module 2. Topics: Matrices in R
14:00 - 18:00	Module 3. Topics: Data Frames and Graphs in R
Wednesday - 11 September
09:00 - 13:00	Module 4. Topics: Lists in R
14:00 - 18:00	Module 5: Topics: Hints of descriptive statistics with R