R Beginners Course 2026

Introduction to R and Basic Programming Concepts

Bioinformatics Core Facility CECAD

2026-05-21

Slides & Code

  • [f] Full screen
  • [o] Slide Overview
  • [c] Notes
  • [h] help

git repo

R-Basic


Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/CECADBioinformaticsCoreFacility/Beginners_R_Course_2026.git


Slides Directly

https://cecadbioinformaticscorefacility.github.io/Beginners_R_Course_2026/

Session 1 :: Introduction to R Basics

Interacting R

  • RStudio
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Visual Studio
  • Eclipse
  • …

# Load data
data("iris")

# display data sample
head(iris)

# get statistics
summary(iris)

# get plot
boxplot(Petal.Length ~ Species, data = iris, col=c(1:3))



# Running the script
Rscript boxplot.R

Literate programming

? [function]

help([function])

example([function])

demo([topic])

browseVignettes([package])

search()

data()