Detailed information about the course
| Title | Advanced Programming With R |
| Dates | Autumn 2026 |
| Lang |
Workshop language is English |
| Organizer(s) | Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator StarOmics |
| 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 | |
| Places | 24 |
| Deadline for registration |
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