BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260709T173457Z UID:4b971ef8-d63a-427a-a313-2d7b8dfb91a5 DTSTART:20241007T090000Z DTEND:20241008T170000Z DESCRIPTION:# Overview\nR is a complete\, flexible and open source system f or statistical analysis and graphics\, which has become a tool of choice f or biologists and biomedical scientists who need to analyse and visualise large amounts of data. Due to its popularity\, R is continuously updated a nd extended with the latest libraries for data manipulation\, modelling an d visualisation. \n\nThis course will give an introduction to R and Rstudi o (an integrated development environment for R) in an interactive manner. Participants will receive example data sets to practise data manipulation\ , graphical exploration and statistical hypothesis testing.\n\n# Audience\ nThis "First Steps with R" two-day course is addressed to beginners wantin g to become familiar with the R syntax\, environment\, and the most common commands to start using R to explore and interpret their data.\n\n# Learn ing objectives\nAt the end of the course\, participants should be comforta ble with the R environment and be able to read\, understand and write R co mmands\, allowing them to implement and interpret a workflow for their dat a analysis:\n* interact with the R environment\n* import data\, explore it and summarise it\n* explore data with graphs\n* perform simple statistica l tests.\n\n\n# Prerequisites\n#### ***Knowledge / competencies***\nAs it is a course for beginners\, no background in R or any programming language is required. However\, you are encouraged to go through some of the R doc umentation available [here](http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-releas e/R-intro.html).\n\nPlease also note this course is NOT a training on stat istics but rather a training on how to use R to perform different tasks\, statistics being one of them.\n#### ***Technical***\nA Wi-Fi enabled lapto p with latest [R](https://www.r-project.org/) and [RStudio](https://www.rs tudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download) versions installed. There w ill be access to the eduroam and guest network. \n\n# Application\n\n\n \n \nRegistration fees are **200 CHF** for academics and **1000 CHF** for for -profit companies. While participants are registered on a first come\, fir st served basis\, exceptions may be made to ensure diversity and equity\, which may increase the time before your registration is confirmed.\n\nAppl ications will close as soon as the places will be filled up. Deadline for free-of-charge cancellation is set to **23/09/2024**. Cancellation after t his date will not be reimbursed. Please note that participation to SIB cou rses is subject to our [general conditions](https://www.sib.swiss/training /terms-and-conditions).\n\nYou will be informed by email of your registrat ion confirmation. Upon reception of the confirmation email\, participants will be asked to confirm attendance by paying the fees within 5 days.\n\n\ n # Venue and time\nThe course will take place in at the University of Ba sel.\n\nIt will start at 9:00 and end around 17:30.\n\nPrecise information will be provided to the participants on due time.\n\n# Additional inform ation\nCoordination: Grégoire Rossier\, SIB Training Group.\n\nWe will re commend 0.5 ECTS credits for this course (given a passed exam at the end o f the course).\n\nYou are welcome to register to the SIB courses mailing l ist to be informed of all future courses and workshops\, as well as all im portant deadlines using the form [here](http://lists.sib.swiss/mailman/lis tinfo/courses).\n\nSIB abides by the [ELIXIR Code of Conduct](https://elix ir-europe.org/events/code-of-conduct). Participants of SIB courses are als o required to abide by the same code.\n\nFor more information\, please con tact [training@sib.swiss](mailto:training@sib.swiss). SUMMARY:First Steps with R in Life Sciences URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20241007_FSWR END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR