Advanced Programming With R

Fall 2026

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

Dr Frédéric Schütz, UNIL & SIB

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, Appl
• 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).

Draft schedule:

09h00-10h30

Coffee break

11h00-12h15

Lunch break

13h30-15h00

Coffee break

15h30-17h00

UNIL, room TBC

This course is organized in collaboration with the CUSO Doctoral Programs in Ecology & Evolution, Microbial Sciences and StarOmics and the Doctoral School in Life Sciences of Neuchâtel (DSLS)

24 seats (8 StarOmics, 9 E&E, 3 MPS, 2 Microbiologie, 2 DSLS)

Reimbursements for CUSO StarOmics 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.

Reimbursement for DSLS Students: Train ticket, 2°class, half-fare from Neuchâtel to the place of the activity. DSLS participants must keep all original tickets and receipts. For any question concerning reimbursement please contact Sarah Miéville (DSLS coordinator at [email protected]) or visit https://www.unine.ch/dp-biol/courses-activities/

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