Knowledge Requirements
We strongly recommend for those not yet familiar with UNIX and/or R/Python to take this opportunity and take these online tutorials, since those are requirements for the workshop. This will help you to develop your programming skills and we can always learn a few tricks here and there, even if you are already experienced.
- UNIX (part_1): http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/ Links to an external site.
- UNIX (part_2): https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/shell-extras/ Links to an external site.
- R (part_1): https://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-inflammation/ Links to an external site.
- R (part_2): http://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/ Links to an external site.
- Python (part_1):https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/ Links to an external site.
- Python (part_2): http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/ Links to an external site.
After taking those courses (or any other equivalent course in programming in bash and R or Python) will provide you with the basics in, for example:
- file structure and manipulation in bash
- loading, handling and manipulating vectors, matrices, factors and lists
- creating for-loops
- using Rmarkdown/Jupyter for reports
- editing and writing files in the command line
- and much more …