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Why Clinical Laboratorians Should Embrace the R Programming Language

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I am a clinical laboratorian and i find this article very useful .. Thank you for sharing. Can you help me to explore this field ?

Software Carpentry community [1] has a few very good tutorial guides and workshops for those who are new to R. Their main aim is for teaching basic laboratory skills for research computing. Others who are already proficient in R can utilize and adopt these materials for their own training and workshops.

The first guide is for clinical settings, doing data analysis for inflammation in patients who have been given a new treatment for arthritis [2]. Another is a general introduction to R for non-programmers using gapminder data for reproducible scientific analysis [3][4].

[1]https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/index.html

[2]http://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-inflammation/

[3]http://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/

[4]https://www.gapminder.org/data/

Re: Why Clinical Laboratorians Should Embrace the R Programming Language

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Reasons I prefer R to python: - Rmarkdown. I prefer a text document over a web notebook for exploratory research - The standard library is for statistics and data: dataframe, lm, anova, etc. are builtin - A huge range of probability distributions are built-in. I don't need to import extra libs to do simulations. - Between functional programming techniques and vectorization, I can write very clean and concise code - T…

Does RStudio already work on Linux wayland? Last time it failed because of a QT-component but AFAIK the whole thing is transitioning to electron.

It works as long as you set the right flag before launching it.
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