What do we do?
The Biology Graduate Students Association is the students group for all graduate students in the Biology Department at McGill University. We organize social events such as wine and cheeses and graduate student retreats, as well as educational and research events such as symposia and workshops.

Who is a part of BGSA?

All graduate students in the Biology department of McGill University are members of the BGSA.
Graduate Contact List

Click HERE to read our constitution!

Monday, April 25, 2011

Crash-course in R

We're running a 4-hour crash-course workshop on R, for some students from the Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe), who are meeting here next week. However, there's a lot of extra room in the workshop, so if you missed our introductory workshops last time around, now's a good chance to come out and see what all the fuss is about! We'll be meeting in Stewart Biology's computer lab, N4/17. The workshop'll run from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm (with a couple breaks) on Wednesday, April 27th. We'll be covering trimmed down versions of our first 3 stats workshops:
  1. The basics: Opening and using R for the first time, and some basic commands
  2. Creating an R project: creating a script file, management of project files, housekeeping, data import 
  3. Plotting in R: an introduction

If you think this would be interesting or useful, contact Eric Pedersen, or show up on the day. We may end up running out of space though, so it'll be first come, first serve!