R for Bioinformatic Analyses
Hannah Tavalire and Bill Cresko - University of Oregon
January 2019 - Cesky Krumlov
Lecture 1 - Using R for Biostatistical Analyses
But first a beautiful chair
- R is a statistical programming language (derived from S)
- Superb data management & graphics capabilities
- You can write your own functions
- Powerful and flexible
- Runs on all computer platforms
- Well established system of packages and documentation
- Active development and dedicated community
- Can use a nice GUI front end such as
Rstudio
- Reproducibility
- keep your scripts to see exactly what was done
- distribute these with your data
- embed your
R
analyses in polished RMarkdown
files
- FREE