Language R - INTRODUCTION

Dates

• From Tuesday 01/06/2026 to Wednesday 3/06/2026

Speakers

Aurélien Barré, Benjamin Dartigues

Training link

Objectives

• Acquire the basics for the use of the R language
• Know how to manipulate and visualize large sets of biological data

Program

This training will introduce the R language and data mining and visualization techniques.

• Installing and configuring R
• Essential notions and commands (variables, functions?)
• File formats, reading and writing tabulated data
• Tools for manipulating and transforming large tables
• Modern libraries for creating graphics

Alternate short presentations (50% of the time) followed by practical work based on real datasets (50% of the time).

This course can be followed by a course devoted to NGS analysis with R (Ref. 18339, this catalogue).

Detailed program downloadable HERE.

Prérequis

Basic computer skills (file management, web browser, etc.)

Public

Engineers, biology technicians and training bioinformaticians