Get a first understanding of how to code using R fully using the Galaxy infrastructure. The first part will introduce the basic concepts of R, whereas the second part will focus on providing some advanced concepts around data manipulation.

Time estimation: 5 hours

Learning objectives:

• Know advantages of analyzing data using R within Galaxy.
• Compose an R script file containing comments, commands, objects, and functions.
• Be able to work with objects (i.e. applying mathematical and logical operators, subsetting, retrieving values, etc).
• Be able to load and explore the shape and contents of a tabular dataset using base R functions.
• Understand factors and how they can be used to store and work with categorical data.
• Apply common dplyr functions to manipulate data in R.
• Employ the ‘pipe’ operator to link together a sequence of functions.