Detailed information about the course
Title | Advanced programming with R |
Dates | Autumn 2025 |
Organizer(s) | Dre Caty Suarez, CUSO coordinator, E&E Mme Debora Zoia, CUSO coordinator, MPS; Mme Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator, StarOmics Dre Emilie Genty, CUSO coordinator, Microbiologie + DSLS UNINE |
Speakers | Dr. Frédéric Schütz, UNIL & S |
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 |