General Information

This is the website for the Introduction to R for Genomics workshop series. This workshop will introduce you the R programming language and how to use R and RStudio to work with genomics data.

Who: The course is aimed at facutly, graduate students, Post-Docs who work with genomics data. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of programming or the tools presented in the course to attend. A laptop is required for the workshop.

Where: Biomedical Library Building, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0699, La Jolla, CA. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a few specific software packages installed (listed below).

Contact: Please mail jreiswig@ucsd.edu for more information.

Need help?:

• Jenny Reiswig: Email jreiswig@ucsd.edu
• Mary Linn Bergstrommlbergstrom@ucsd.edu
• Reid Otsujirotsuji@ucsd.edu
• Stephanie Labou slabou@ucsd.edu Data Science LibrarianLibrary Data/GIS Lab
• Library Data/GIS Lab has R specialists

Lecture notes & command histories:

• Notes: Intro to R & RStudio , Commands:R Script

Credits: The course materials are adpated from the Software Carpentry lessons. Many thanks to the authors of those lessons.

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Schedule

Date	Class	Topics
Apr. 13	Day 1	Intro to R & RStudio
Apr. 14	Day 2	Plotting with GGPLOT2
Apr. 15	Day 3	Data Wrangling with dplyr & tidyr
Apr. 16	Day 4	Working with Data

HackMD: https://hackmd.io/@U2NG/BJcE1UeSU.
We will use this HackMD for taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.

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Syllabus

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Setup

To participate in this workshop, you will need access to the software described below.