Online
Jul 14-17, 2020
9:00 am - 13:00 pm
Instructors: Vincenza Colonna, Loredana Le Pera, Allegra Via
Helpers: Silvia Buonaiuto, Gianluca Damaggio, Marco Pietrosanto
Allegra Via, National Research Council and ELIXIR - Homepage
Loredana Le Pera, National Research Council and ELIXIR - Homepage
Vincenza Colonna, National Research Council and ELIXIR - Homepage
Here is the registration link.
Deadline for application is: Jul 1, 2020.
A maximum of 15 candidates will be selected on the basis of motivations given in the application form.
Selected participants will be notified by Jul 7, 2020.
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic computing concepts and tools, including program design, data management, data visualization, and task automation using R and RStudio software environment. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is aimed at both Bioinformaticians and Biologists who want to learn how to manipulate, process data, and make plots using R. Some best practices for scientific programming will be explained: breakdown analyses into modular units, task automation, and encapsulation. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.
When: Jul 14-17, 2020. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must have a desktop/laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.
Contact: Please email elixir.ita.training@gmail.com or loredanalepera@gmail.com for more information.
Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
| 09:00 | Welcome & Presentation; Testing setup and zoom; Pre-workshop survey |
| 10:00 | Introduction to R and RStudio |
| 11:30 | Morning break |
| 11:50 | Project Management With RStudio |
| 12:50 | Seeking Help |
| 13:10 | Wrap-up |
| 09:00 | Warm-up |
| 09:15 | Data Structures |
| 11:10 | Morning break |
| 11:30 | Subsetting Data |
| 13:10 | Wrap-up |
| 09:00 | Warm-up |
| 09:15 | Subsetting Data (continued) |
| 09:30 | Exploring "gapminder" dataframe |
| 09:50 | Control Flow |
| 11:10 | Morning break |
| 11:30 | Creating Publication-Quality Graphics with ggplot2 |
| 13:10 | Wrap-up |
| 09:00 | Warm-up |
| 09:15 | Writing Data |
| 09:45 | Morning break (I) |
| 10:00 | Dataframe Manipulation with dplyr |
| 11:10 | Morning break (II) |
| 11:50 | Dataframe Manipulation with dplyr (continued) |
| 12:20 | Writing Good Software |
| 12:40 | Wrap-up; Post-workshop Survey |
| 13:10 | END |
To participate in a Software Carpentry workshop, you will need access to the software described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
R is a programming language that is especially powerful for data exploration, visualization, and statistical analysis. To interact with R, we use RStudio.
Install R by downloading and running this .exe file from CRAN. Also, please install the RStudio IDE. Note that if you have separate user and admin accounts, you should run the installers as administrator (right-click on .exe file and select "Run as administrator" instead of double-clicking). Otherwise problems may occur later, for example when installing R packages.
Install R by downloading and running this .pkg file from CRAN. Also, please install the RStudio IDE.
You can download the binary files for your distribution
from CRAN. Or
you can use your package manager (e.g. for Debian/Ubuntu
run sudo apt-get install r-base and for Fedora run
sudo dnf install R). Also, please install the
RStudio IDE.