This 3-day advanced course is targeted at life scientists or bioinformaticians who are already comfortable using the R statistical software in practice, and want to extend their knowledge. Lectures will be conducted in the morning, with practicals in the afternoon.
Topics covered include, among others:
- Data structures in R
- R internals
- Object-oriented programming in R
- Best practices for programming in R
- Using R to conduct reproducible analysis
- Data structures and manipulation of data within R
- Profiling code