Data Workshops

MED 264 - Rentrez

October 5, 2017
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Introduction

This lesson assumes you have the R, RStudio software installed on your computer.

Setup

Please ensure you have the latest version of R and RStudio installed on your machine. This is important, as some packages used in the workshop may not install correctly (or at all) if R is not up to date.

R can be downloaded here.

RStudio is an environment for developing using R. It can be downloaded here. You will need the Desktop version for your computer.

If you are new to R and RStudio, you can familiarize yourself with some of the basic syntax and structure of R, take the free online R course from datacamp.com: https://www.datacamp.com/. You can also learn R from within R with a tutorial called Swirl. Follow the instructions here http://swirlstats.com/students.html.

R Notebook

R Notebooks are new feature of RStudio and are only available in version 1.0 or higher of RStudio. An R Notebook is an R Markdown document with chunks that can be executed independently and interactively, with output visible immediately beneath the input.

For more information see: R Notebooks Overview

Intro to NCBI Database Lesson

This lesson will be focusing on the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) EUtils API:

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