BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260715T170035Z UID:707c874e-5885-4453-8063-f4333a6a2963 DTSTART:20231019T090000Z DTEND:20231020T170000Z 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 i s 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 docu mentation available [here](http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release /R-intro.html).\n\nPlease also note this course is NOT a training on stati stics but rather a training on how to use R to perform different tasks\, s tatistics being one of them.\n#### ***Technical***\nA Wi-Fi enabled laptop with latest [R](https://www.r-project.org/) and [RStudio](https://www.rst udio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download) versions installed. There wi ll 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\, firs t served basis\, exceptions may be made to ensure diversity and equity\, w hich may increase the time before your registration is confirmed.\n\nAppli cations will close as soon as the places will be filled up. Deadline for f ree-of-charge cancellation is set to **05/10/2023**. Cancellation after th is date will not be reimbursed. Please note that participation to SIB cour ses is subject to our [general conditions](https://www.sib.swiss/training/ terms-and-conditions).\n\nYou will be informed by email of your registrati on confirmation. Upon reception of the confirmation email\, participants w ill 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 Zur ich\, Rämistrasse 71.\n\nIt will start at 9:00 and end around 17:30.\n\nP recise information will be provided to the participants on due time.\n\n# Additional information\nCoordination: Monique Zahn\, SIB Training Group.\ n\nWe will recommend 0.5 ECTS credits for this course (given a passed exam at the end of the course).\n\nYou are welcome to register to the SIB cour ses mailing list to be informed of all future courses and workshops\, as w ell as all important deadlines using the form [here](http://lists.sib.swis s/mailman/listinfo/courses).\n\nSIB abides by the [ELIXIR Code of Conduct] (https://elixir-europe.org/events/code-of-conduct). Participants of SIB co urses are also required to abide by the same code.\n\nFor more information \, please contact [training@sib.swiss](mailto:training@sib.swiss). SUMMARY:First Steps with R in Life Sciences URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20231019_FSWIR END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR