Introduction to R

Welcome

This is workshop material for the “Introduction to R” workshop given by the Monash Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform. In the past it has been presented as part of the Data Fluency program at Monash. Our teaching style is based on the style of The Carpentries.

• Slideshow

• PDF version for printing

• ZIP of data files used in this workshop

During the workshop we will be using Posit Cloud to use R over the web:

• Posit Cloud

You can also install R on your own computer. There are two things to download and install:

• Download R
• Download RStudio

R is the language itself. RStudio provides a convenient environment in which to use R, either on your local computer or on a server.

Source code

This book was created in R using quarto!

• GitHub page

Authors and copyright

This course is developed for the Monash Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform by Paul Harrison.

This work is licensed under a CC BY-4: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The attribution is “Monash Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform” if copying or modifying these notes.

Data files are derived from Gapminder, which has a CC BY-4 license. The attribution is “Free data from www.gapminder.org”. The data is given here in a form designed to teach various points about the R language. Refer to the Gapminder site for the original form of the data if using it for other uses.