Advanced programming with R

In collaboration with CUSO (Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale)


Credits: 2.0

Description

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).

Organizers :

  • Catherine Suarez, CUSO coordinator, E&E
  • Debora Zoia, CUSO coordinator, MPS;
  • Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator, StarOmics
  • Emilie Genty, CUSO coordinator, Microbiology + UNINE-DSLS