Advanced Programming with R

Autumn 2026

Dre Caty Suarez, CUSO coordinator E&E Mme Debora Zoia, CUSO coordinator MPS Mme Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator StarOmics Dre Sarah Miéville, CUSO coordinator Microbiologie + DSLS Neuchâtel

Dr Frédéric Schütz, UNIL & S

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).

TBA

University of Lausanne, Room TBA

Reimbursements for CUSO Students: Train ticket, 2°class, half-fare from your institution to the place of the activity.

Reimbursement of your travel tickets can be asked online through your MyCUSO. See HERE for the procedure.

For any question concerning reimbursement please contact the CUSO Microbiology coordinator Sarah Miéville

Important informations :

• A waiting list will be prepared to ensure that there are no empty seats.
• For cancellations after the deadline of registration or no-show: 50 CHF administrative fee

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