When: R Club is scheduled on every other Thursday at 1:00 PM.
Purpose: Enhancing data analysis skills; facilitating collaborative bioinformatics and biostatistical research with an emphasis on R.
Schedule: The 2022-2023 R Club schedule is available here
Everyone is welcome!
Contact: Lily Charpentier
What is R?
- R is a general-purpose statistical programming environment you can download for free. It works on a wide variety of computer platforms including Windows, Mac and linux. R Studio makes R substantially easier to use.
- R can be augmented by downloading up to 15,000 task-specific CRAN packages to perform a wide array of analytical tasks. Bioconductor contains addition packages (1,741) annotations (948) experimental data (371) and workflows (27) relevant to biology.
- Projects R Club participants have been working on include ScanGEO and GAPE.
Needless to say, R is extremely powerful, and one of the things we do in R Club is help people become acquainted with what R can do. We emphasize hands-on presentations to provide R learners of all levels new experience and practice analyzing data and sharing their knowledge.
R scripts and slides are available on our Slack group.
