This course is intended for the attendants of R for Biologists I or scholar familiar with R programming who want to go in depth in particular areas. The course will have a changing topic from a series of recurrent fields such as GIS in R, analysis and visualization of animal movement, comparative phylogenetic methods etc. The submission of a course reader is prerequisite for a successful attendance. Requirements: R programming skills. Information and registration with kamran.safi@uni-konstanz.de. Further information see https://lsf.uni-konstanz.de/qisserver/servlet/de.his.servlet.RequestDispatcherServlet?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=47473&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung. [more]

This course will allow for one week of intense introduction in R a powerful opensource programming environment widely used in scientific research. We will begin with understanding how we can work with R to make our lifes as biologists from a wider range of subdisciplines easier. Consequently, we will want to undestand how data can be mined, rearranged and basic visualisations made. The course's intention is to give a solid foundationin the programming language R (and Latex, but very basic). It is not astatistics course, but does not exclude stats. The idea is to be able to masterR as a programming language to do a wealth of different things that R allows todo, which includes, but also goes way beyond, stats. [more]