Detailed information about the course

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Title

Advanced Programming with R
Dates

Nov 17-18, 2025
Lang EN Workshop language is English
Organizer(s)
  • Catherine Suarez, CUSO coordinator, E&E
  • Debora Zoia, CUSO coordinator, MPS;
  • Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator, StarOmics
  • Emilie Genty, CUSO coordinator, Microbiology + UNINE-DSLS
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, Apply; 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).
Location

UNIL
Information

Note: This course is coorganised with CUSO StarOmics, CUSO MPS, CUSO Microbiology and UNINE-DSLS.
Expenses

Travel
PhD students of the CUSO DPEE are eligible for the reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, 2nd class). Claims can be done online via MyCUSO when the activity is over.

Registration fees
CUSO members: Free

 
Registration

CUSO members: FREE
9/24 spots for CUSO DPEE!


Others (MSc and postdocs): Please contact the CUSO coordinator taking the registrations before registering: staromics(at)cuso.ch

Cancellation Policy
Late cancellations or no-show: 50 CHF administrative fee

 
Places

24
Deadline for registration
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