| Title |
Advanced Programming with R
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| Dates |
December 2-3, 2024 |
| Lang |
Workshop language is English |
| Organizer(s) |
Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator StarOmics
Debora Zoia, CUSO coordinator MPS
Emilie Genty, CUSO coordinator Microbiologie
Catherine Suarez, CUSO coordinator E&E
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| Speakers |
Dr. Frédéric Schütz, UNIL - SIB |
| Description |
The activity will cover the following topics among others:
- Objects and Data structures
- Operations and Logical operations
- Missing data
- Data manipulation: Concatenation, Sorting, Data subsetting, Appl
- Conditional instructions, loops
- Functions; KnitR/markdown
- Vectorization of R code (i.e. how to avoid loops for efficient computing time) and how to estimate computing time of R code
- Complex functions
- Debugging (use R in debug mode), enhancing and adapting own and foreign (from packages) code
- Typical traps and tipps on good coding practice
- R coding standards (i.e. how to write good, readable and reusable code)
- Running R from bash scripts (e.g. on servers or clusters).
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| Location |
UNIL
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| Information |
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| Expenses |
Travel
PhD students of the CUSO biology programmes are eligible for the reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, 2nd class) from the main station of your institution city and the course location.
Claims can be done online via MyCUSO when the activity is over.
Fees
CUSO participants: Free
Other participants: Please contact the programme coordinator at ecologie-evolution(at)cuso.ch
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| Registration |
CUSO PhD candidates: free
24 spaces (8 StarOmics, 9 E&E, 3 MPS, 2 Microbiologie, 2 DSLS)
Other participants: please contact the program coordinator at ecologie-evolution(at)cuso.ch
Cancellation policy: In case of cancellations before the registration deadline (TBC): free
Late cancellations or no-show: 100 CHF administrative fee
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| Places |
24 |
| Deadline for registration |
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| Joint activity |
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