• Startdatum:
  • 4 juni 2018
  • Cursusduur:
  • 4 dagen
  • Werkzaam als:
  • PhD, Student

R is an open-source, free environment for statistical computing and graphics. It provides a large repository of statistical analysis methods, both classic and new. However, R has a steep learning curve, due partly to its using a command-line type of user interface, rather than the usual pull-down menus. This 4-day course aims at helping researchers climb this curve, enabling them to perform basic data analysis and graphic displays at the end of the course, as well as giving a platform from which they can deepen their R knowledge later on if necessary.

Goals & Topics
After the course you will be able to:

  • understand and write simple R programs
  • use R to perform simple statistical analyses of your own data tables
  • generate analysis reports  from your own data in html or pdf formats


We will cover the following topics:

  • R expressions and formula objects
  • R data objects (vectors (arrays), data frames (tables), lists, matrices) creation and usage
  • R functions for descriptive statistics and linear model fitting
  • RMarkdown for building reproducible reports
  • installing additional libraries
  • histograms, scatter plots, boxplots (in pure R and elegant with ggplot2 library)
  • filtering, sorting, summarizing of a table; joining/merging multiple tables (with dplyr library)
  • Prerequisites
  • The course assumes no prior programming knowledge. The course requires elementary statistics knowledge.

Participants must bring own laptops capable of running RStudio. Please download and install free RStudio Desktop before the course. Optionally, you may additionally download and install a console version of R.

The details of the course are provided at https://barmsijs.lumc.nl/R_course/index.html.

PLEASE NOTE: there must be https at the beginning of this address. http will not work.

 

Monday 4 June 2018: Main building LUMC J1-83

Registration 08.30-09.00

Lectures 09.00 - 12.30   and 13.30-17.00

Tuesday 5 June 2018: Main building LUMC J1-83

Lectures 09.00 - 12.30   and 13.30-17.00

Wednesday 6 June 2018: Main building LUMC J1-83

Lectures 09.00 - 12.30   and 13.30-17.00

Thursday 7 June 2018 : Main building LUMC J1-83

Lectures 09.00 - 12.30   and 13.30-17.00

 

Prof. dr. J.J. Goeman
Dr. S.M. Kiełbasa
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Bioinformatics Center for Expertise, LUMC
R.X. de Menezes
VU Medisch Centrum (VUmc)
R. Monajemi
Senior researcher, LUMC
LUMC
Hippocratespad 21, 2333 ZD Leiden

Participation is free of charge for bachelor and masterstudents of the Leiden University or VU University. Please fill in your student email address and your student number. Please be informed that we can ask you to show your student pass at the registration desk. Please note that a fee will be charged to students who do not attend courses or who are too late cancelling their participation of the course.

Course fee

€ 750,00

Employees LUMC / VUmc

€ 150,00

Bachelor/master students of the Leiden University or VU University  free of charge*

 € 0