Welcome to the IRTG Course - Introduction to R This workshop is meant for individuals with little previous knowledge R.
The course will run over 2 days (Wednesday, 8.12 and Thursday, 9.12) from 10 am - 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm - 5.30 pm.
In this two-day course, we want to give you an introduction to working with R in simple data analysis tasks; you will learn the basic principles of reading in a data table, doing some descriptive statistics, making nice plots. On the second day, we will focus on a simple single-cell analysis workflow, which will guide you through the first steps of this kind of analysis!
While we will start at a very basic level, we would strongly encourage absolute beginners, who have never ever worked with R, to complete a very simple online R intro course on DataCamp ("Introduction to R"), which will give you the very basic first concepts on what R is, and how to do some very simple operations with it. We will send you a link so that you can freely register to DataCamp and follow this course.
Every participant will work on her/his own laptop. The easiest way to work with R is using the RStudio interface. Please install RStudio Desktop prior to the start of the course:
Please check that you can open RStudio without error message!
Here is a list of usefull resources if you want to perform basic analysis with R
Here are the links to the slides
Day 1 : introduction
Day 1 : R markdown
Day 1 : Data types
Day 1 : Cleanup
Day 1 : Plots
Day 1 : Statistical tests
Please document your progress in this Google Sheet
On the first day, we will guide you through the first steps of working with R, from reading data to exploratory analysis and basic statistics.
On the second day, we will go through a step by step simple analysis of a small scRNA-seq dataset using the Seurat toolkit. Don't expect to be able to carry a full scRNA-seq analysis after this! This is meant to give you an idea of a typical workflow rather.
You can check your results using this form
The course will be online only!