R Workshop for Bioscience

CAF Jan 13, 2023

Author

Kuan Liu

Published

2023-01-12

Welcome

  • Welcome to the R workshop for Bioscience!
  • The workshop is intended for any Bioscience researchers with limited prior experience in R who is interested in learning how to use R to do data wrangling, data visualization, common statistical analyses.
  • Workshop materials in the github repository Rworkshop

Learning objectives

At the end of the class, students will be able to:

  • navigate R and R studio interface
  • set up project and coding environment for data analysis
  • efficiently handle datasets
  • perform common data visualizations used in Bioscience
  • conduct descriptive analysis in R
  • conduct regression analysis in R (if time permits)

Schedule

Time Topic
9:00 - 9:10 Introduction
9:10 - 9:45 Session 1: Get Started with R
9:45 - 10:00 Questions + Coffee break
10:00 - 10:45 Session 2: Working with Data
10:45 - 11:00 Questions + Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Session 3: Statistical Analysis in R
11:45 - 12:00 Conclusions and Questions

In preparation for the workshop

Participants are required to follow the next steps before the day of the workshop:

  1. Install R and R Studio

  2. Verify access to the course page, https://kuan-liu.github.io/Rworkshop/

  3. Clone or download the workshop repository: https://github.com/Kuan-Liu/Rworkshop

Reference and resource

R for Data Science ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis

About me

  • I am an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics and Health Services Research at the University of Toronto
  • My primary research focuses on developing methodology for statistical inference with complex longitudinal data in comparative effectiveness research
    • causal inference
    • Bayesian statistics
    • longitudinal data analysis
    • joint modelling
    • bias analysis
  • My ties to forestry and ecology 🌲