Getting Started with R
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The programming language R and its graphical interface RStudio are commonly used for statistics and data analysis. FinnGen installs the freely available versions of these tools in the Sandbox. FinnGen does not provide help debugging R scripts.
You should learn and develop R scripts on your own personal machine, not in the Sandbox. You can download and to your own personal computer for this purpose. Often one uses mock or fake data on your personal computer to develop basic scripts and then upload these scripts to the Sandbox.
taught by Harvard biostats professor Rafael Irizarry (Although you can pay for the certificate, the modules are each free)
(The first sessions “Introduction for R” are free, but more advanced courses have a monthly subscription fee.)
(choose R programming)
, (O'Reilly book)
by Rafael Irizarry
by FiMM's Matti Pirinen
R is best used with the addition of packages and libraries to suit your specific needs. The vast majority of these are free and open source. For a basic group of packages that cover file, string, and data manipulation, along with improved data visualization, many people use
Many basic libraries and packages are already installed on the Sandbox and you can see the full list of these within RStudio. If you want additional packages you can send an email to humgen-servicedesk@helsinki.fi.
Basics of Statistics and R I and II, MAT21001 and MAT21002 (Online or in-person)
Genome-wide Association Studies, LSI34002 (Matti Pirinen).(Notes for this class include many examples in R and are freely available -. )