Advanced Programming with R

5-6 September 2023

Mme Corinne Dentan, UNIL, StarOmics Coordinator

Dre Catherine Suarez, UNIGE, DPEE Coordinator

Mme Debora Zoia, UNIL, MPS Coordinator

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, 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)

Draft schedule:

09h00-10h30

Coffee break

11h00-12h15

Lunch break

13h30-15h00

Coffee break

15h30-17h00

University of Lausanne, room Amphipôle 334

Map

This course is organized in collaboration with the CUSO Doctoral Programs in Ecology & Evolution and Molecular Plant Sciences.

Reimbursements:

Reimbursements for CUSO StarOmics students: - Train ticket, 2°class, half-fare from your institution to the place of the activity.

NEW from 2021: Reimbursement of your travel tickets can be asked online through your MyCUSO.

See HERE for the procedure.

For any question concerning reimbursement please contact the CUSO StarOmics coordinator Corinne Dentan

Other CUSO Students: Please contact the coordinator of your Program.

20 places : 8 StarOmics, 9 E&E, 3 MPS

Please note: 100 CHF admin fee for late cancellations and absences

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