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<p class="big"> Welcome to the R bootcamp for biologists course website! </p>

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<h32> (January 8-10 at FootHills Campus) </h32>
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<h3><font color="blue">This course is offered jointly by the International Microbiome Centre and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary.
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## About this course
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The purpose of this course is to teach scientists (students, postdocs, PIs) in the biological and medical sciences to use R for typical data analysis tasks they might encounter routinely. This includes sequence analysis and other bioinformatics tasks.
<i> No prior knowledge of R is expected and workshop attendees can expect to come away with a skill set that is immediately translatable to their respective data tasks.</i></p>

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## What you will learn 

At the end of the workshop you will able to:

* Install and update R
* Use the Rstudio IDE
* Import a wide variety of data types into R
* Understand the basic data types: integer, numeric, logical, character
* Understand R’s basic data structures: vector, matrix, list, data.frame
* Manipulate data structures by subsetting and indexing
* Manipulate data with tidyverse
* Make plots with ggplot
* Understand some common R errors and how to deal with them
* Find and evaluate R packages needed for a particular analysis

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##Fees

The fee for this course is 250 CAD.

## Register

<font color="red"> Attendees will need to spend 4-6 hours on course material each week ( for 3 weeks)  prior to the start of the course.</font> For more details, please read <a href="https://wcmcbioinformatics.github.io/Rbootcamp2018/format.html"> Course Format</a> 

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