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).

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