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ELIXIR node event Tidy in R

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Date: 1 April 2025 @ 09:00 - 17:00

Language of instruction: English

This course combines e-learning with an online session.This course will give an introduction into the tidyverse, a number of R packages that were designed to simplify data analysis in R. Since we have already handled the ggplot2 package in the R introduction course, we will focus in this course on packages like magrittr, tibble, dplyr and tidyr. The course will consist of:e-learning, where you will watch parts of the theory upfrontexercise session on YouTube where you can ask questions and where you apply the theory to real-life example dataSince part of the course is done via e-learning you have to take into account that you will have to spend time on this course outside of class. 

Keywords: programming, statistics

Learning objectives:

  • “Introduction to the dplyr package to easily manipulate tables”
  • “Introduction to the pipe operator to easily combine functions”
  • “Introduction to the tidyr package to easily change the format of a table”
  • “Introduction to tibbles as they are generated by many functions in the tidyverse”

Organizer: VIB

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses

Instructors: Janick Mathys

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