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 – 3^rd 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