RT-qPCR analysis with R: Glossary

Use the skip argument to skip lines when reading in a text file.

Plots can be used to inspect the contents of large data frames.

The separate() fucntion from tidyr can be used to separate variables contained in a single column.

Data frames can be combined based on matching variables.

There is a lot of data wrangling involved in data analysis!

The group_by() and summarise() functions are useful for calculating means across groups of samples.

The mutate() function can be used to store the results of calculations in a new column.

Using R for analysis help make the analysis reproducible.