index.Rmd

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title: "R Basics for Cancer Scientists"
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# Introduction

This site contains the materials for a short training session introducing R, a
programming language for statistical data analysis, run by the [Bioinformatics Core](https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/core-facilities/bioinformatics-core)
facility at the [Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute](https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk).

# Description

**R** is one of the leading programming languages in **Data Science** and the
most widely used within CRUK CI for interacting with cancer biology data sets.

In this training course, we aim to provide a very brief introduction to R aimed
at cancer scientists who would like to be better able to manipulate, visualize
and analyze their data.

# Schedule

1. [Getting set up](setting_up.html) - install R, RStudio and the tidyverse packages in advance of the training session

2. [Introduction to R](introduction_to_r.html) - get acquainted with some key concepts with working in R

3. [Working with tabular data](tabular_data.html) - a whistle-stop tour of some of the most commonly used operations for manipulating and visualizing tabular data in R

4. [Next steps](next_steps.html) - where to go next in our R learning journey