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Week 6- Discussion Writing scripts

Goals:

  • Write a backbone of your program.
  • Explore the resources available for your project.
  • Explore R functions relevant to your project.

Week 6- Writing a program

Goals:

  • Understand the importance of building a program
  • Learn how to gather user input into the program.
  • Learn how to process files in sequence using for loop.
  • Understand the importance of using variables instead of fixed values.
  • Learn how to give warnings and feedback to the user.

Week 5- Start your project with a README.md

Goals:

  • Understand the importance of a good README file.
  • Write a README file for your project.
  • Create a repository for your project.

Week 4- Regular expressions with sed

Goals:

  • Understand the power of regular expressions.
  • Understand the things that sed can do with expressions.
  • Change the format of real data from biological experiments using regular expressions.