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Since it's the summer vacations, why not take some time to learn R. There are numerous free resources online to dive into this powerful language. For whomever wants to learn it, the challenge more related to finding the time rather than finding resources. Videos Coursera is an inevitable for online learning. There are a few good video courses offered for R beginners that are more or less oriented toward genomics : https://www.coursera.org/learn/r-programming https://www.coursera.org/learn/exploratory-data-analysis https://www.coursera.org/learn/bioconductor (Bioconductor is a life science packages [...]

Let’s get to know my top 10 R’s neat little functions and tricks that make our life easier when manipulating data in R. Sequences Want to make long sequences of numbers or letters but don’t feel like writing them all out into a vector? R let’s you make a sequence with “:” for numbers. You can also use seq() if you are looking for a regular sequence that is not incremented by one. letters[] let’s you make continuous letter sequences, [...]

The first thing I have learned in R is how to load a table. Usually, when you start your R journey, someone more knowledgeable will tell you how to do this very first action. It will typically be: data<-read.table("~/SomeFolder/datafile.txt") You probably will be adding various parameters into the brackets such as "row.names=0" or "header=TRUE" or, "sep="\t"", to make sure you are reading your file correctly. And this is perfectly fine, as a loading method of small datasets. However, to maximize [...]