Overview

This is an introduction to the R statistical programming language for members of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the general cancer community.

Learning Objectives

• Know the fundamentals of the R programming language.
• Be able to read, manipulate, and write data with R.
• Be ready to analyze data with R in a reproducible manner.
• Have all the tools to learn more R on your own.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites, other than to have the software installed on your laptop prior to the workshop (see below).

Software

• Install R
• Install RStudio

Materials

Workshop materials are available online here.

Instructor

Karla Lindquist, PhD, is the Scientific Lead for the UCSF Library's Data Science Initiative.

Sponsors

Computational Biology and Informatics Shared Resource (http://cbi.ucsf.edu), the Bioinformatics Shared Resource, and the Library Data Science Initiative (library.ucsf.edu/data-science).