Please read this prior to class on Tuesday, June 17th:

• Daniel Lemire's You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work (I mean it)

• Nate Silver's Be Skeptical of Both Piketty And His Skeptics

If you are interested, I also recommend this:

• James Kwak's More bad excel

In this lab, you will:

1. Setup git
2. Create a private homework repository on Github
3. Create an info.r file

You will need:

1. A Github educational account
2. If you are using your own laptop, please install relevant software

Setup git

You will be using git to submit every lab assignment for ...

R Basics

Vectors

Commonly used functions

Data in R is stored in vectors. These are essentially an ordered container for objects of the same type (i.e. numeric, character, logical). We can create a vector with "c(...)". Here are some examples:

numeric.vector <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
character ...

For those of you who installed TextWrangler today, you should note that it does not perform syntax highlighting for R. While this is not necessary to write your programs, it makes the process much easier. This site has information on how to add a module that supports syntax highlighting in ...

In the first lab, we will deal with installation issues. You will need to bring your laptop to lab. For installation instructions, please see the Software page.

During future lectures and labs, we will make heavy use of Git and GitHub. Every student will need a Github student account for ...

Please read this prior to class on Tuesday, June 10th:

L. Preeyanon, A. B. Pyrkosz, and C. T. Brown, Reproducible Bioinformatics Research for Biologists. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, and R. D. Peng, editors, Implementing Reproducible Research. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2014.