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I suspect you may be off doing field work, generating tons of awesome data =
for your project, or thinking about how you will package it together to tel=
l a compelling story. You might also be thinking about learning R to improv=
e the reproducibility and rigor of your analyses and will help yo=
u to make attractive data visualizations. Sure, tools like mothur will help=
you process raw sequencing data, but they can only get you so far until yo=
u need something customized for your biological questions. This is where ma=
ny have found R to be enormously helpful. Further, if you aren=E2=80=99t ev=
en thinking about sequence data, R will help you analyze any data you have =
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I will be teaching a 3 d=
ay R workshop from August 28-30 near the Detroit airport. The workshop is b=
eing filled on a first come, first served basis. The workshop is geared tow=
ards people with interests in microbial ecology that would like to learn R =
or to learn it better. So you shouldn't feel like this isn't for you if you=
are a beginner. I assume no previous computer programming experience. The =
workshop is an even blend of lecture/discussion and hands on use of R with =
real data and typically uses mothur output files as a starting point. Here =
is a rough outline of the content that past workshops have covered. We will=
make extensive use of packages from within the tidyverse like ggplot2 and =
dplyr: