Reddit reviews Getting Started with R: An Introduction for Biologists

Good for you!

Here are some beginner tutorials written by students at my work
https://ourcodingclub.github.io/tutorials/

Also this book is excellent!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Getting-Started-R-Introduction-Biologists/dp/0199601623

Try to learn ggplot2, it's easier than the standard graphics

ANOVA is built into R but I you'll need to run an ANOVA on a linear or generalised linear model. It's covered in the tutorials I linked.

For example (this won't run it's just an example of code)

Model1 = lm(height ~ sex, data = datafile)

Null.model = lm(height ~ 1, data = datafile)

Model.test = anova(Model1, Null.model, test = "Chisq")

Summary(Model.test)



For a graph it depends on how your data is laid out but you could feed it raw data and plot the means with error bars in ggplot2 with stat_summary like so

ggplot(data = datafile, aes(x=sex, y=height, colour=sex))+

stat_summary(geom="bar", fun.y=mean, position=position_dodge(width=0.95))+

stat_summary(fun.data=mean_se,position=position_dodge(0.95),geom="errorbar")

Hope that helps.


Don't be put off, learning r will make future stuff so much easier. I barely touch excel now