Hands-on Introduction to R programming

Hybrid hands-on data science tutorial for staff and students at SickKids and beyond, offered by the Centre for Computational Medicine (CCM)
About this Event

Hands-on tutorials to help build skills required in Precision Child Health, data science and bioinformatics. The training is prepared for staff and trainees at SickKids and beyond by the Centre for Computational Medicine (CCM).

This is a hybrid event offered both in-person and online.

Topics include:

• Basic operations in RStudio
• Creating an R script
• Vectors, matrices, data frames
• Reading data from text and Excel files

No prior knowledge of programming is required. We encourage you to bring your laptop to practice data analysis steps under our guidance. We recommend that you have the following software pre-installed:

• R – install from https://cran.rstudio.com (unless your laptop already has it)
• RStudio – install from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download

Sponsors

This course is supported by:

• Centre for Computational Medicine, SickKids
• Digital Research Alliance of Canada and Compute Ontario