In my opinion packages are one of the main reasons why R is so successfull. They add a whole new level of functionality and reproducibility and also increase the productivity of every user by reusable R functions, their documentation and sample data. [Read More]

I started analyzing sequencing data just over one year ago. In the beginning it was so exciting to finally receive the first reads, do some quality checks and start further analysis, that I didn´t think about reproducibility. I ended up with multiple distinct versions of mapped reads, adapter/quality trimmed reads... [Read More]

Last week I saw this post on Twitter where Adam Spannbauer visualized an animated ‘growing’ bar graph in R. Pretty impressive! Is an animated graph contributing to a better understanding? From the comments and a related second post it became clear, that this animation was visually appealing, but in no... [Read More]

At the beginning of the year, I remember myself staring at the screen, sitting on a bunch of genomic data and thinking: “Man, it would be really helpful to hover over my data points and check what properties they have…” As this may seem a bit nerdy, nowadays dynamic content... [Read More]

To get straight to the point: This post is about data manipulation and visualization in R. Obviously, that is something completely different from my first post and with more content coming up, I have to think about giving the blog a clearer structure 🤔 But for now, it should be... [Read More]