If you find these materials useful for your research, please consider
acknowledging the Sheffield Bioinformatics Core in any outputs that
arise from having learnt R. You can contact us for support on specific
projects using:- bioinformatics-core@sheffield.ac.uk
Although R is well-regarded as a tool for performing statistical analysis, this workshop will not explicitly teach stats. Instead we give introduce the tools that we allow you to manipulate and interrogate your data into a form with which you can execute statistical tests.
If you are following these notes independently (outside one of our workshops)
From the RStudio menus, Choose the File -> New Project option and select New Directory from the new window