Data manipulation and visualization with R

This is a one-day training course run at the University of Cambridge Bioinformatics Training Facility. It introduces some of the core packages from the tidyverse including ggplot2, tidyr, dplyr and stringr.

The following topics are covered:

• The grammar of graphics approach to plotting used in ggplot2
• What constitues a tidy dataset
• "Piping" commands together to form a workflow
• Subseting and filtering datasets using dplyr
• Producing summary statistics from a dataset
• Joining datasets using dplyr

See the introduction R markdown for further details and the outline schedule for the course.