Introduction to R
This course will introduce the fundamentals of programming in R. The basic syntax and internal logic of working in R will be covered, with some coverage of Tidyverse tools, if time permits. Topics will include data types, functions, coding style, reading/writing files and basic data manipulation. This course is designed for students with little to no programming experience (prior installation of R is not required). The goal of this course is to get comfortable working with R in RStudio.
Prerequisites:
Students must bring their own laptop with an ability to connect to the UT WiFi network. No prior knowledge of R programming is required.
Matt Bramble (Bioinformatician, Bioinformatics Consulting Group, CBRS)
Matt Bramble has recently joined the CBRS team after six years at MD Anderson Cancer Center analyzing a wide range of NGS data in epigenomics. His areas of expertise include: Hi-C (chromatin conformation) analysis, mouse somatic variant analysis, and single cell RNAseq analysis. He has 10 years of experience with R and Python, and Master’s degrees from UT in Molecular Biology and Statistics.
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