R Club

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

Katja Koeppen and Tom Hampton, R Club facilitators

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.