BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260715T201137Z UID:ae0809e1-90b9-47e8-a064-fe6d5af372b9 DTSTART:20250203T090000Z DTEND:20250204T170000Z 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 2-day course provides an introduction to R and R studio\, an integrated development environment for R\, in an interactive m anner. Participants will receive example data sets to practise data manipu lation\, graphical exploration and statistical hypothesis testing.\n\n# Au dience\nThis course is addressed to beginners wanting to become familiar w ith the R syntax\, environment\, and the most common commands to start usi ng R to explore and interpret their data.\n\n# Learning outcomes\nAt the e nd of the course\, participants are expected to:\n* use the R environment to read\, understand and write R commands\n* implement a data analysis wor kflow to import\, explore and summarise data\n* explore data with graphs\n * perform simple statistical tests\n\n\n# Prerequisites\n#### ***Knowledge / competencies***\nNo background in R or any programming language is requ ired. If you wish to get an early start on the course content\, you can sc an some of the R documentation available [here](http://cran.r-project.org/ doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html).\n\nPlease note that **this course doe s not provide training on statistics** but on how to use R to perform diff erent tasks\, statistics being one of them.\n\n#### ***Technical***\nA Wi- Fi enabled laptop with latest [R](https://www.r-project.org/) and [RStudio ](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download) versions in stalled. There will be access to the eduroam and guest network. \n\n# Appl ication\n\n\n \n\nRegistration fees are **200 CHF** for academics and **10 00 CHF** for for-profit companies. While participants are registered on a first come\, first served basis\, exceptions may be made to ensure diversi ty and equity\, which may increase the time before your registration is co nfirmed.\n\nApplications will close as soon as the places will be filled u p. Deadline for free-of-charge cancellation is set to **24/01/2025**. Canc ellation after this date will not be reimbursed. Please note that particip ation to SIB courses is subject to our [general conditions](https://www.si b.swiss/training/terms-and-conditions).\n\nYou will be informed by email o f your registration confirmation. Upon reception of the confirmation email \, participants will be asked to confirm attendance by paying the fees wit hin 5 days.\n\n\n # Venue and time\nThe course will take place at the Uni versity of Basel.\n\nIt will start at 9:00 and end around 17:30.\n\nPrecis e information will be provided to the participants on due time.\n\n# Addi tional information\nCoordination: Monique Zahn\, SIB Training Group.\n\nWe will recommend 0.5 ECTS credits for this course (given a passed exam at t he end of the course).\n\nYou are welcome to register to the SIB courses m ailing list to be informed of all future courses and workshops\, as well a s all important deadlines using the form [here](https://lists.sib.swiss/po storius/lists/courses.lists.sib.swiss/).\n\nSIB abides by the [ELIXIR Code of Conduct](https://elixir-europe.org/events/code-of-conduct). Participan ts of SIB courses are also required to abide by the same code.\n\nFor more information\, please contact [training@sib.swiss](mailto:training@sib.swi ss). SUMMARY:First Steps with R in Life Sciences URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20250203_FSWR END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR