archaebacterium

Hello and welcome to the amended first full release of the materials for my Introduction to R short course.
The materials that have been amended since v1.0 are updated and compiled Introductory Slides ('Introductory_Slides.pdf').
Please see the 'PreCourse_Handout.pdf' and the 'Course_Program.pdf' to get started.

Ben R. Fitzpatrick, 6th July 2015

bacterium

Hello and welcome to the first full release of the materials for my Introduction to R short course.
Please see the 'PreCourse_Handout.pdf' and the 'Course_Program.pdf' to get started.

• Ben R. Fitzpatrick, 5th July 2015

nucleic_acid

Hello and welcome to the third pre-release of the materials for this Introduction to R Short Course.

The code files to accompany Modules 1 to 3 are now at the complete draft stage.

These complete draft stage code files are:
'1_Basics.R',
'2_Graphics_with_ggplot2.R', and
'3_Linear_Modelling.R'.

Please note I have altered the ordering of the Modules and the associated code files in this release:
'2_Graphics_with_ggplot2.R' now comes before '3_Linear_Modelling.R' so that users are more familiar with the use of 'ggplot2' by the time they need to use it in the Linear Modelling module.

You will also note a more informative 'README.md' in this release.

Thanks again for your interest and a special thank you to my faithful testers,

-- Ben R. Fitzpatrick, 15th June 2015

nucleotide

Hello and welcome to pre-release v0.2.
Code files '1_Basics.R' and '2_Linear_Modelling.R', which correspond to Modules 1 and 2 of the short course, are now complete drafts.
Both these Modules have been demonstrated live and the associated code files improved upon accordingly.
The code file '2_Linear_Modelling.R' culminates in the production of the following animation: https://youtu.be/mIDuPWqu0_4
Module 3 will constitute a more comprehensive introduction the graphics package 'ggplot2' which we use in '2_Linear_Modelling.R'.

• Ben R. Fitzpatrick 5th June, 2015.

monomer

Welcome to the first pre-release of the materials for my 'Introduction to R' short course.
Please note this is a pre-release created to distribute the annotated R code file '1_Basics.R' for a practise run of the first module of the course.
As such, '1_Basics.R' is now a complete draft and has been tested once via demonstrating a practise session of the associated first module of the course.

This first module of the course covers the basics of command line computing in R with the RStudio IDE.

Module 1 (with the associated code in '1_Basics.R') introduces:
i) the RStudio IDE along with its use for saving and loading R Workspaces
ii) the creation, manipulation and use of vector, matrix and dataframe objects
iii) the use of simple descriptive statistics functions and simple ploting with R base graphics

For best results with Module 1, in the following order, please download and install:

1. the most recent version of R from http://cran.r-project.org/
2. the most recent version of RStudio from http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

The next module will focus on Linear Modelling in R and will use the R code file '2_Linear_Modelling.R'.

Please note that aside from '1_Basics.R' all files in this repository are under heavy development and are incomplete, early drafts only.

• Ben R. Fitzpatrick, 3rd June 2015