*BioSB Course Kick start R (4th edition) * *Date: May 19, 2017* *Location: Amsterdam* *Course Coordinator: Douwe Molenaar (VU)* *Website*, including course programme: http://biosb.nl/edu cation/course-portfolio/course-kick-start-r/ *Registration: * http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/co urse-kick-start-r/enrollment-kick-start-r-course-4th-edition/ On May 19, 2017, BioSB organises the fourth edition of the Kick Start R course in Amsterdam. *Goal* The goal of this kick-start course is to: - Introduce the structure and philosophy behind the R-language. - Introduce a number of tools to work with R. - Give hands-on experience in solving data problems from the lab This is an introductory course to speed up the study of R. *Target audience* Primarily targeting researchers from academia, but participants from the private sector are also welcome. *Description* This is a one-day introduction to the possibilities of the statistical calculation environment R for those who would like to use it, or have already started using R for statistical data analysis but would like to obtain a bit more background. We will start with a lecture in which the philosophy behind the R-language will be explained. An understanding of the data structures in R allows you to work more efficiently with R. We will show some of the advanced possibilities of R as well as where to find tutorials if you want to know more about those techniques. Most of the day will be devoted to a hands-on tutorial. The tutorial contains material from an introductory master course that is taught at the VU University. The manual contains material and references to material for self-study. Topics that we will discuss: R language basics, installing R and R-packages, finding help, using R-studio, making dynamic reports, model fitting, reading/writing data from/to files, making publication-ready graphs, books and tutorials on the use of R. Participants will get a certificate after successfully completing this course. Read more <http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/course-kick-start-r/> & Register via the registration form <http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/course-kick-start-r/enrollment-kick-start-r-course-4th-edition/> Best regards, ** ** *Femke Francissen* Community manager BioSB BioSB Research School Visiting address: Geert Grooteplein 28, route 260, 6525 GA Nijmegen Postal address: P.O. box 9101, route 260, 6500 HB Nijmegen E-mail: femke.francissen@biosb.nl Skype: femke.francissen Website: www.biosb.nl LinkedIn link <http://nl.linkedin.com/in/femkefrancissen>