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DESCRIPTION:\nCourse content\nThe course is addressed to life scientists wi
 th little or moderate experience in programming but enthusiastic about lea
 rning how to use R to make their work smoother and easier.\n\nThe course c
 overs fundamental concepts of programming and software design focusing on 
 programming in R. We will go through various aspects of R scripting with s
 ome more attention paid to the parts useful for life scientists. After int
 roductory lectures on good programming practices\, basic software design t
 heory and a brief overview of R\, we will delve into programming. We start
  by learning how to use R as a simple calculator\, what are variable types
 \, how to use data structures\, how to implement repeating actions with an
 d without loops\, how to take actions based on certain condition. We gradu
 ally proceed to loading data\, importing data from common file formats\, w
 e do some basic matrix algebra\; learn how to perform basic statistical te
 sts and how to visualize results.\n\nWe will also put stress on giving you
  tools to access help and information on R-related challenges and issues\,
  we will spend some time on learning how to install external packages\, ho
 w to find bugs and address common installation issues.\n\nWe also mention 
 some more advanced topics and tell you more about BioConductor that is an 
 invaluable tool for a computational biologist. You will also learn how to 
 document your work and how to generate automatic reports. We try to illust
 rate all these concepts with some real-life examples and interesting lab t
 asks.\n\nThe course will be given by experienced computational biologists 
 from SciLifeLab and Uppsala University. Dr. Marcin Kierczak responsible fo
 r the content of the course is an experienced R user/coder\, who has previ
 ously developed R packages and has experience in teaching programming and 
 R to different audiences.\n\n
SUMMARY:R Programming Foundations for Life Scientists\, 2 hp
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.scilifelab.se/events/rvt17/%0A
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