Courses

LF903 - Quantitative Skills for System Biology: basic programming with R. Module for PhD/postgrads, 10x3hr session on Wednesday pm, plus 2 hour exam. Contact Sasha Ott (s.ott@warwick.ac.uk) if you would like to join (open to others if space).

Oxford Spring School - Advanced Methods for Social Scientists https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/spring-school/timetable.html?schoolid=517

Bioinformatics training - https://bioinfotraining.bio.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate

R User Group/Conference

Warwick R User Group: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wdsi/events/wrug/ - including resources!

Eurpoean R Users Meeting: http://2018.erum.io/

Documentation

R markdown: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com

knitr: http://yihui.name/knitr

ggplot2: http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/

R Documentation: http://www.rdocumentation.org/

Cheatsheets/Other help

RStudio cheatsheets (dplyr, rmarkdown, RStudio): https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/ - second page has cheatsheet of keyboard shortcuts (also customisable)

R for Stata users: http://www.princeton.edu/~otorres/RStata.pdf

Introduction to LaTex: https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes

Additional material from last year’s workshop (more on LaTeX + markdown and programming to avoid copy-pasting code for similar tasks): https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wdsi/events/vacationschool2017/for-participants/materials/additional/

Books

bookdown: e-books created with R markdown, good quality and free! https://bookdown.org/

Quick-R: website with associated book containing useful how-to’s http://www.statmethods.net/

Advanced R: to learn more about R as a programming language http://adv-r.had.co.nz/

Many books/e-books in Warwick library, e.g.

• The art of R programming (Norman Matloff)
• Data Analysis and Graphics Using R (John Maindonald and John Braun)

Getting Help

Programming Q & A site: http://stackoverflow.com/. Use tags to refine search, e.g. “[r] [ggplot2] remove legend title”.

RStudio Community forum: https://community.rstudio.com/. A new site for discussion/help on issues particularly related to the RStudio IDE and the tidyverse set of packages (including tidyr and dplyr, see https://www.tidyverse.org/).

More on getting help on R: https://www.r-project.org/help.html

Finding out about R packages etc

R Seek: http://rseek.org/

CRAN task views: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ and Bioc task views: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html

R Bloggers: https://www.r-bloggers.com/. To subscribe to RSS feed, add following to your RSS reader: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RBloggers.

Twitter: #rstats

Miscellaneous mentioned in last session

citation("pkgName") informs you how to cite a package that has been critical to your work; citation() gives the citation to use for R itself.

Results from community poll: “How do you currently discover and learn about R packages?” (n=1099) https://app.doopoll.co/poll/FGZqTL7vpaaCgpWCM/live-results