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)
  • Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator, StarOmics
  • Sarah Miéville, CUSO coordinator, Microbiology + UNINE-DSLS
  • Debora Zoia, CUSO coordinator, MPS
  • Catherine Suarez, CUSO coordinator, E&E
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).

 

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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