This is a six-sessioned (each of 1.5 hours) training course run at the CRUK-CI by the Bioinformatics Core. It moves beyond basic R and 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.