Section outline

  • ** EXAM **

    Please submit two exercises (for which solutions weren't already posted) to both:

    frederic.schutz@sib.swiss

    geoffrey.fucile@sib.swiss

    **

    Tuesday 14 February (9:00 - 17:30)

    • Round of introduction - participants' interests
    • Refresher on objects, data structures and how to read a data file

    • Loops (while, for) and vectorization
    • Functions

    • Curve fitting with nls()

    • Relational operators
    • Conditional statements
    • Logical operators

    Wednesday 15 February (9:00 - 17:00)

    • Data manipulation
      • Concatenation (cbind, merge, etc)
      • Sorting (sort, order, etc)
      • Data subsets
      • Apply family
      • Missing data
    • Introduction to parallelization

    • Customization of graphics
    • Introduction to dplyr and ggplot2

    • KnitR/Rmarkdown

    • Exam