Research Environment Training Session: Working with R in the RE

R is a powerful programming language with numerous libraries for biological data analysis and visualisation. Within the Genomics England Research Environment, you have access to many versions of R and associated libraries, along with Rstudio for interactive analysis. The High Performance Cluster allows you to run analyses with significant compute.

In this training session, you will learn how to work in Rstudio in the RE, to run your R scripts on the HPC, and to access the R libraries within the RE, which may be different to how you are used to working outside the RE. You will also learn how to access clinical data with R.

You are only allowed to attend this session if you are eligible for data access. This means that you are a Research Network or Discovery Forum member that has met the necessary verification checks and passed our Information Governance training course. If you do not meet this criterion by 10th March 2025 you will be unregistered for this session.

Timetable

13.30 Welcome and introduction
13.35 Working with RStudio on the HPC

13.45 Plotting in RStudio

13.55 Find out what R libraries are available for different versions of R

14.15 Query clinical data with R
14.45 Getting help and questions

Learning objectives

After this training you will know:

• How to use Rstudio on the High Performance Cluster
• How to use R libraries in the RE
• How to query Genomics England clinical data with R

Target audience

This training is aimed at researchers who:

• Are working in the Genomics England RE
• Can programme in R