Advanced R Skills

Having mastered the basics, you will start to develop skills in customising R's core analytical capabilities for your own purposes. Topics include: looping, conditional expressions and writing your own functions. You will learn how to perform advanced statistical analyses such as logistic regression, survival analysis and Bayesian analyses in R using packages such as MCMCpack and coda.

Day one topics

• Looping, conditional expressions
• Write your own functions
• Advanced statistical analysis, including logistic regression, survival analysis and Bayesian analysis.

This workshop will suit those wishing to visualise sequencing or related kinds of data. An awareness of typical data formats associated with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) projects is desirable. By the end of day two you will be able to integrate R into your NGS workflow. During this session we will also introduce you to some helpful packages for handling sequence data and also provide a gentle introduction to the bioconductor repository.

Day two topics

• Visualise and summarise data generated by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) projects
• Sequence data handling
• An introduction to bioconductor repository.

If you wish, you may choose to attend either of the single-day workshops that make up this advanced skills two-day course, or any combination of workshops which make up the intensive four-day course, according to your experience and preference.