BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260822T011014Z UID:3c3bec62-32c5-4972-b984-a9363ec197b3 DTSTART:20251013T090000Z DTEND:20251014T170000Z DESCRIPTION:# Overview\nR is a complete\, flexible and open source system f or statistical analysis and graphics\, which has become a tool of choice f or biologists and biomedical scientists who need to analyse and visualise large amounts of data. Due to its popularity\, R is continuously updated a nd extended with the latest libraries for data manipulation\, modelling an d visualisation. \n\nThis 2-day course provides an introduction to R and R studio\,an integrated development environment for R\, in an interactive ma nner. Participants will receive example data sets to practise data manipul ation\, graphical exploration and statistical hypothesis testing.\n\n# Aud ience\nThis course is addressed to beginners wanting to become familiar wi th the R syntax\, environment\, and the most common commands to start usin g R to explore and interpret their data.\n\n# Learning outcomes\nAt the en d of the course\, participants are expected to:\n* use the R environment t o read\, understand and write R commands\n* implement a data analysis work flow to import\, explore and summarise data\n* explore data with graphs\n* perform simple statistical tests\n\n\n# Prerequisites\n#### ***Knowledge / competencies***\nNo background in R or any programming language is requi red. If you wish to get an early start on the course content\, you can sca n some of the R documentation available [here](http://cran.r-project.org/ doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html).\n\nPlease note that **this course doe s not provide training on statistics** but on how to use R to perform diff erent tasks\, statistics being one of them.\n\n#### ***Technical***\nA Wi- Fi enabled laptop with latest [R](https://www.r-project.org/) and [RStudio ](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download) versions in stalled. There will be access to the eduroam and guest network. \n\n# Appl ication\n\n\n \n\nRegistration fees are **200 CHF** for academics and **10 00 CHF** for for-profit companies. While participants are registered on a first come\, first served basis\, exceptions may be made to ensure diversi ty and equity\, which may increase the time before your registration is co nfirmed.\n\nApplications will close as soon as the places will be filled u p. Deadline for free-of-charge cancellation is set to **30/09/2025**. Canc ellation after this date will not be reimbursed. Please note that particip ation to SIB courses is subject to our [general conditions](https://www.si b.swiss/training/terms-and-conditions).\n\nYou will be informed by email o f your registration confirmation. Upon reception of the confirmation email \, participants will be asked to confirm attendance by paying the fees wit hin 5 days.\n\n\n# Venue and time\nThe course will take place in at the Un iversity of Lausanne.\n\nIt will start at 9:00 and end around 17:30.\n\nPr ecise information will be provided to the participants on due time.\n\n# Additional information\nCoordination: Monique Zahn\, SIB Training Group.\n \nWe will recommend **0.5 ECTS credits** for this course (given a passed e xam at the end of the course).\n\nYou are welcome to register to the SIB c ourses mailing list to be informed of all future courses and workshops\, a s well as all important deadlines using the form [here](https://lists.sib. swiss/postorius/lists/courses.lists.sib.swiss/).\n\nSIB abides by the [ELI XIR Code of Conduct](https://elixir-europe.org/events/code-of-conduct). Pa rticipants of SIB courses are also required to abide by the same code.\n\n For more information\, please contact [training@sib.swiss](mailto:training @sib.swiss). SUMMARY:First Steps with R in Life Sciences URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20251013_FSWR END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR