diff --git a/weeks/week2/README.md b/weeks/week2/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..391e52d --- /dev/null +++ b/weeks/week2/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Week 2 + +After much deliberation, this week we'll work on data frames. They are probably the most important data structure in R as so much of what we deal with is tables. + +We will use the following two tutorials I made a while back: +- https://aru-life-sciences.github.io/bioinformatics/R/programming/2_working_with_dataframes/htmls/reading_and_viewing.html +- https://aru-life-sciences.github.io/bioinformatics/R/programming/2_working_with_dataframes/htmls/indexing.html + +Which are about reading in data, and extracting useful things from the data. As far as possible, I am going to try and do everything in base R (no packages), as we will look at packages later in the term. + +As per usual, we will probably get distracted. We are using the `barley` dataset. See: + +https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/PairedData/html/Barley.html + +## Extra stuff (mainly stats!) + +- `barley` has been used to investigate the paired T-test, which we could do. +- `barley` has different sites, could see if there are between site differences in yield? +- What about yield over time? A regression?