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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

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Places

24

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