Exploratory Analysis of Biological Data using R 2019 Pre-Work

Knowledge Preparation

An introductory tutorial to R has been prepared, you can access it here: http://steipe.biochemistry.utoronto.ca/abc/index.php/R_tutorial

If you have previous R experience, you should still review the tutorial material. The workshop will assume that you are quite comfortable at this introductory level.

A very useful R cheatsheet can be found here: https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Cheatsheets_2019.pdf

Laptop Programs to Install:

1) Install the most recent version of R for your operating system by following the links from http://www.r-project.org/

2) Download and install the most recent version of R Studio desktop from http://www.rstudio.com/. If asked to install git, please select yes.

To check if git is already working on your computer, open RStudio, select file > New Project > Version control > Git. If you do not get an error message, Git is installed and working on your laptop.

If you do get an error message, close RStudio, and please download and install git: https://git-scm.com/. Reopen Rstudio, select file > New Project > Version control > Git.

3) Make sure you have a robust internet browser such as Firefox, Safari or Chrome (not Internet Explorer).

4) Make sure you have a PDF viewer (e.g. Adobe Acrobat, Preview or similar) or that you can read PDF files in your Web browser.

5) Create a project directory for data files and source code for this workshop.