Advanced Programming With R

9-10 November 2026

Caty Suarez, Dr., CUSO coordinator E&E, UNIGE
Mme Debora Zoia, CUSO coordinator MPS, UNIL
Mme Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator StarOmics, UNIL
Sarah Miéville, Dr., CUSO coordinator Microbiologie, UNINE & DSLS Neuchâtel

Frédéric Schütz, 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, room Cubotron III 233

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

REGISTRATION IS CLOSE

Deadline for registration: TBA

3 places available for CUSO MPS Students

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