LibGuides: HSLS MolBio Workshops: R: Data Wrangling

Objective

This workshop on Data Wrangling in R will cover the more advanced topics in R programming for data analysis and graphics. Upon completion participants will be able to:

Import and export data
Merge datasets
Transform data
Create basic summaries of data

Seats are limited. Preference will be given to faculty, students, and researchers in the schools of the health sciences (Medicine, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Public Health).

Target Audience

R users with a working understanding of R basics seeking more advanced skills for using R for data analysis and graphics.

Prior to taking this course participants should be able to:

identify components of R interface,
perform simple calculations in R,
identify and compare data types in R,
use existing functions in R,
write simple functions in R, and
load external packages in R.

Prerequisite

Introduction to R (MBIS Workshop) - This course will consist of a flipped classroom – a pre-recorded video and a hands-on workshop – which will cover the basics of R programming for data analysis and graphics.

Workshop Materials

PowerPoint, R Codes, and Data Folder

Presentation Slides (.ppt) (10/11/2020)
Lecture Video - offered on 10/11/2020
Programming-with-R (.html) - R codes in html for software demonstration (10/11/2020)
Programming-with-R (.Rmd) (10/11/2020) R codes in Rmd format for software demonstration
Data Folder - Files that were used as examples in the slides - students will need access to them to follow along
Practice_Exercise (.Rmd) - the practice exercises for students; tumorgrowth.xlsx - data for the practice exercise