The R language

Learning to code can help enormously in many tasks that a scientist has to do such as doing statistics and analysing data. The R programming language is particularly well suited to this task. There are many good resources online to pick up the basics of the R language, Try R is an online course that will teach you what you need to know to get yourself started.

While the code on this page can be used with minimum knowledge of R, to utilise its full power and customisability a little programming knowledge is required. This is particularly true for customising your own plots, for which the R package ggplot2 is extremely good. A very concise pdf tutorial of ggplot2 can be found here.

Aequorin Calibration function

This R code aims to replace a previous excel spreadsheet that was being used by members of the lab. The functionality should be identical as the code is based on the calculations made in the spreadsheet. The code is written as follows:

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