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Title

Advanced Programming with R

Dates

22-25 janvier 2018

Lang EN Workshop language is English
Organizer(s)

Dr. Marta Bellone, Coordinator of the CUSO Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution
Corinne Dentan, Coordinator of the CUSO Doctoral Program StarOmics

Speakers

Dr Frédéric Schütz, University of Lausanne & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)

Description

This 4-days course is targeted at PhD students who already know the basics of the R statistical software, who are comfortable using R software, and want to extend their knowledge. Lectures will be conducted in the morning, with practicals in the afternoon. Topics covered include, among others:

  • Best practices for programming in R
  • Using R to conduct reproducible analysis
  • Data structures and manipulation of data within R
  • Graphics in R
  • Profiling code
  • R internals
  • Object-oriented programming in R
  • Complex functions
  • Vectorization of R code and how to estimate computing time of R code
  • Running R from bash scripts

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • reduce the number of potential errors and bugs when programming in R
  • efficiently use R data structures in order to store and process their data
  • profile their code to find and remove bottlenecks in order to make it run faster
Location

University of Lausanne

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!PREREQUISITE!

  • Have attended the course "An Introduction to R" or a similar course prior attending the course.
  • Having attended the course "An Introduction to R" does not provide enough background to follow this course; regular practice with R extending beyond the course is required.

When?
22-25 January 2018Schedule to be announced Where?
University of LausanneAmphimax building, MAX413 room Information: - Please bring your laptop to the course with latest R version installed!

Expenses
Reimbursement:

PhD students of StarOmics are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class). Please send the original tickets along with the reimbursement form to: Corinne Dentan
Doctoral Program StarOmicsCIG, Le Génopode
University of Lausanne
1015 Lausanne

NEW from 2018: NO reimbursement of your meal expenses Regarding reimbursement of accomodation, please contact the coordinator of the doctoral program (staromics(at)cuso.ch) BEFORE the beginning of the course. NO reimbursement of accomodation without the agreement in advance of the course of the coordinator fo the doctoral program. For all other PhD students, please check reimbursement conditions on the website of your doctoral program.

Registration

REGISTRATIONS OPEN ON MONDAY NOVEMBER, 20TH 2017 at 10.00AM Priority is given to PhD students of the Doctoral program in Ecology and Evolution and StarOmics until 14th of January 2018. After this deadline, first comes, first serves! Through your myCUSO account! Please note that this is a shared course between the CUSO doctoral program in Ecology and Evolution & StarOmics. Places available will thus be assigned proportionally.

Places

20

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