Introduction to R

This is the homepage for the introductory R course offered by the Center for Biomedical Research Support. All lecture slides, coding worksheets and coding worksheet solutions will be posted here. Additionally, all materials will be permanently archived here for your reference. Zoom recordings will be distributed to the class via email. More information regarding bioinformatics courses offered by CBRS can be found here.

Course information

Time: 9am-12pm | November 3rd, 2021

Zoom meeting link:

• Meeting ID: 989 2156 8617
• https://utexas.zoom.us/j/98921568617

Class compute servers (see email for password):

• https://gsafcomp01.ccbb.utexas.edu/
• https://gsafcomp02.ccbb.utexas.edu/

Topic 1: Introduction to R programming

• Slides (R basics): baseR_intro.pdf
• You can download R from here: https://cran.r-project.org/
• You can download RStudio from here: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
• R Markdown basics: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_basics.html
• Base R cheat sheet: https://iqss.github.io/dss-workshops/R/Rintro/base-r-cheat-sheet.pdf
• In-class worksheet 1 (R basics):
  • R Markdown
  • HTML
  • HTML, Solutions
  • Test dataset
• Blank R Markdown project notebook template:
  • R Markdown
  • HTML

Topic 2: Introduction to the Tidyverse

• Slides (Tidyverse basics): tidyverse_intro.pdf
• Tidyverse style guide: https://style.tidyverse.org/index.html
• Tidyverse vignettes:
  • tidyr vignettes: https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/
  • dplyr vignettes: https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/
  • ggplot2 vignettes: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/
• In-class worksheet:
  • R Markdown
  • HTML
  • HTML, Solutions