Course R Without Fear: Applied R for Biologists, September 4th-8th, 2017, Barcelona (Spain).

[Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno]

Dear colleagues,

Registration is open for the workshop "R Without Fear: Applied R for Biologists – 3rd edition", September 4th-8th, 2017.

Instructor: Dr. Oriol Verdeny-Vilalta (Ynsect, France)

PLACE: Premises of Sabadell of the Institut Catalá de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (Barcelona, Spain).

WEBPAGE: http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/statistics/r-without-fear-applied-r-biologists/

PROGRAM:

Introduction to R and RStudio.

* Brief introduction to R.
* Review of R basics.
* The RStudio environment.
* Reproducible research: R scripts and R markdown.

Data manipulation I.

* Read your data: Local vs. remote location.

Data manipulation II.

* Tidy your data.
* Manage your data.
* R Pipelines.
* Summarize your data.

Regression models I.

* Linear regression.
* Multiple linear regression.

Regression models II.

* * Generalized linear model.
* Non-linear model.

Data visualization with ggplot2.

* Grammar of graphics.
* The ggplot.
* Basic visualizations (regressions, bar plots, error bars…).
* Customize the ggplot.

With best regards

Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD.
Scientific Director
Transmitting Science
www.transmittingscience.org