Course description

Join us in medieval Visby this June to improve your R skills and have a nice time!
In Life Science and Bioinformatics, R is increasingly being used to transform and analyse data, perform statistical analysis and produce publication-ready visualizations. This Summer course will focus on advanced R functionality, to increase the participants skillset and understanding of what is possible to do today.

You are very welcome to apply or see the homepage for more information. Please, help us spread the word to interested participants!

Guest speakers

Martin Morgan (Director at Bioconductor)
Paula Moraga (Lancaster Univ., RLadies)
Yhui Xie (RStudio)

Course content

• Reproducibility with R
• Writing R packages
• R scripts
• S3, S4 and Reference Classes
• Code debugging and optimization
• R markdown
• tidyverse
• Bioconductor
• ggplot2
• Interactive plots
• Statistics in R
• Machine Learning
• Shiny web applications
• Working with maps
• Area specific workshops (RNAseq, spatial stats etc)
• Working with your own dataset

Course fee

Academic: 8500 SEK (Includes participation in all official activities and events, course materials, breakfast, lunch and accommodations).

Participants from outside of academia should contact us for a fee quote.

The fee does not include travel costs.

Important dates

 Application open: March 17

Application deadline: April 15

Notification of acceptance/decline: April 25