Description

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course offers the opportunity to researchers in life sciences and medicine to get familiar with R progressively with expert guidance. The sessions will be highly interactive and practical, making it possible for the participants to use R in their research studies in the most efficient way.

FORMAT

The course will be offered through seven interactive sessions. Programming in R will be learned progressively through a combination of intense guidance by statistical experts and by self-study.       
During the first sessions, we will learn to import and manipulate data and to perform some basic statistical analyses.  Once we have mastered the basics, we will use the ggplot2 package to discover the excellent graphical capabilities of R. Moreover we will see some introductory applications of RMarkdown to set our first steps in automatic reporting, a key ingredient for reproducible research. Examples will be largely from health sciences.

A maximum number of 20 participants can subscribe to allow highly interactive sessions in a pc room.

CONTENTS

- Exploring R and Rstudio, Constructing and working with vectors

- Importing SPSS, csv and Excel datasets

- Data manipulation: selecting data, creating new variables, merging datasets

- Data visualization using ggplot2

- Creating reproducible reports using RMarkdown

LEVEL      
Beginner

DATES      
The course will take place on 

Tuesdays, October 13, 20 and 27

November 10, 17 and 24

from 14:00 till 16:30. Deadline for doctoral school recognition: September 11, 2026

VENUE      
UZ campus - K3 (entrance 42), first floor- PC room 1.1 - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

LANGUAGE      
The course will be given in Dutch, but the slides are in English

PREREQUISITES      
No previous experience with R required. Participants should have access to R and RStudio (either installed on their computer or via Athena)

TEACHERS      
Roos Colman and Ineke Van Gremberghe

FEES     
The fee for this course is 350,00 EURO. There are three payment options available. Internal through Ugent via invoice and transfers and external through invoicing. More information on the payment options will be available in the confirmation mail. 

For PHD Students - Information on reimbursement by the Doctoral Schools    
First you complete the payment to the Biostatistics Unit. After the course has ended, Doctoral Schools will reimburse this amount, provided that your reimbursement request has been approved and you can submit proof of payment.   
For questions about the application procedure, deadlines, and reimbursement, please contact the Doctoral Schools directly: doctoralschools@ugent.be

CONTACT      
- For questions regarding the content of the course, please contact Roos Colman (roos.colman@ugent.be)

- For administrative questions, you can send an e-mail to secr.biostatistiek@ugent.be

CANCELLATION POLICY      
Our cancellation policy applies to this course.

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