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)

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