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Objectives

Provide students with basic knowledge of R programming, allowing them to manipulate and visualize data with R.

Topics:

  • Introduction to R and R studio
  • R Basic syntax
  • Introduction to variable types and functions
  • Manipulate vectors, matrices and data frames
  • Read and load data into R
  • Make graphics in R

Minimum formation: - Bachelor’s degree in biology or related areas. No previous knowledge of R is necessary.

This course can have recognition of 3 ECTs for FCUL PhD students enrolling in it as part of their first doctoral year.

General Plan

Detailed plan:

  • Introduction to R and R studio: students will become familiar with the R and R studio environments and will learn how to setup and manage a project using R studio.
  • R Basic syntax: students will learn how to assign variables, create scripts and print to the console.
  • Introduction to variable types and functions: the students will learn the different type of variables and learn how to distinguish functions from variables. The students will become familiarized with function syntax and outputs.
  • Manipulate vectors, matrices and data frames: the students will learn how to create vectors, matrices and data frames and what are their different uses. They will also learn how to access the different data types, and extract information.
  • Read and load data into R: the students will learn how to import data into R and how to quickly visualize it.
  • Make graphics in R: the students will learn how to create graphics using basic R plot and how to configure several options. We will also do a quick overview of the ggplot2 package.

Funding

Students fees

Fee

Free for 1st year PhD students of FCUL enrolling in it as part of the curricular year; also free for 1st year PhD students in the Doctoral program Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (UP) and Biology and Ecology of Global Changes (UA) when the course counts credits for their formation; in all these cases the delivery of a final report done after the course is mandatory; 15 € for other PhD students from cE3c, 30 € for PhD students from institutions of the PEERS network (CFE); 60 € for FCUL Master students, more advanced PhD FCUL students and unemployed (not from cE3c); 80 € for BTI, BI and other PhD students; 115 € for Professional and postdocs.

This new call (deadline May 20) only accepts 1st year non-paying students as listed above.

Priority is given to non-paying 1st year PhD students mentioned above, being, by order of preference: 1) cE3c students; 2) BIODIV students (not from cE3c); 3) FCUL students (not from cE3c); 4) BEAG students (not from FCUL).

How to Apply

Candidates should send a short CV and a motivation letter to Inês Fragata (irfragata@gmail.com) and Vitor Sousa (vmsousa@fc.ul.pt) and. The cv and letter should be named as 1st-lastNAME-CV.pdf and 1st-lastNAME-ML.pdf (that is personalize the name of each file with your first and last name).

Candidates should send a short CV and a motivation letter to Inês Fragata (irfragata@gmail.com) and Vitor Sousa (vmsousa@fc.ul.pt). The cv and letter should be named as 1st-lastNAME-CV.pdf and 1st-lastNAME-ML.pdf (that is personalize the name of each file with your first and last name).

In the email please add the following information:

Full Name:________________________

E-mail:___________________________

Phone:___________________________

1st year PhD student of which programme (mark correct option in bold):

BIODIV (FCUL)

BIODIV (FCUP)

Another PhD programme at FCUL  (which: ____________________________)

BEAG (Univ Aveiro)

The course counts credits for the 1st curricular year (CFA)? Mark the correct option in bold

Yes; No