Advanced Programming with R

17-18 November 2025

Corinne Dentan, CUSO StarOmics Coordinator, University of Lausanne
Debora Zoia, CUSO MPS Coordinator, University of Lausanne
Catherine Suarez, Dr., CUSO Ecology and Evolution Coordinator, University of Geneva
Emilie Genty, Dr., Doctoral School in Life Sciences (DSLS), University of Neuchâtel

Frédéric Schutz, Dr., 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

University of Lausanne, Amphipôle 338

Map

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)

Reimbursements for CUSO MPS 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.

For any question concerning reimbursement please contact the CUSO MPS coordinator Debora Zoia

Please register through the CUSO StarOmics webpage

Deadline for registration: 31.10.2025

3 places available for CUSO MPS Students

For cancellations after the deadline of registration or no show: administrative fee

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