CRI Seminar Series: Introduction to Reproducible Research via R Markdown

Introduction to Reproducible Research via R Markdown
Speaker: Lei Huang, PhD
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2019
Time: 1:30-1:30pm
Location: KCBD 1103

Join the CRI Seminar Series for an overview of using R Markdown to make your research more robust and reproducible.

Senior Bioinformatician Lei Huang, PhD, will discuss best practices and tools to facilitate reproducible research in data analysis with a focus on the R programming language and software environment. The following topics will be discussed:

• What is reproducible research?
• What changes you can make to your research to make it more robust and reproducible?
• What is R Markdown?
• Learn the basic R Markdown syntax
• Learn to create an R Markdown document
• How to use Git through the RStudio interface (if time permits)

Please note:

To participate in this workshop, you will need to bring your own laptop computer. Please prepare the following:

• Latest R 3.5.2 release (https://cran.r-project.org/)
• RStudio Desktop (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download)
• Git (https://git-scm.com)

This session will assume that participants already have basic R programming knowledge, including data structure (list, vector, data frame, etc.), read and write files, simple statistical tests, and basic plots.

Please register to reserve your seat.