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Tue 31 Mar 2015
09:30 - 17:30

Venue: Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building

Provided by: Bioinformatics


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R object-oriented programming and package development
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Tue 31 Mar 2015

Description

The course will present intermediate to advanced R programming using the object-oriented programming paradigm. It will cover how to document code and data to produce a fully functional R package. Further information is available here.

The Course Web Site providing links to the course materials is here.

Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to Book register Interest by linking here.

Target audience
  • Graduate students, Postdocs and Staff members from the University of Cambridge, Affiliated Institutions and other external Institutions or individuals
  • Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here
  • Further details regarding the charging policy are available here
Prerequisites
  • Only attending Bioinformatics: Introduction to R would not provide sufficient background for this course
  • A substantial period of active programming experience in R will be assumed
  • Familiarity with object-oriented programming and Latex would be an advantage, but not essential
Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainers
1 Tue 31 Mar 2015   09:30 - 17:30 09:30 - 17:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building map Robert Stojnic,  Laurent Gatto
Topics covered
  • Introduction: what is object-oriented programming; description of the working example; R programming best practices: tips and tricks, environments, coding standards
  • R object-oriented programming: the S3 and S4 OO systems
  • Documentation: documenting functions, methods and data, providing executable examples; documentation using Roxygen; executing R code inside Latex document (Vignettes)
  • Writing R packages: minimum package structure; combining the written classes/generics/methods and documentation to create a package; building, checking and installing packages
  • Other advanced R programming topics: testing code, unit testing; profiling and debugging; calling C code inside R
Aims
  • To help users advance their R programming skills to be able to begin writing object-oriented code and/or developing R packages
Format

Presentation and demonstrations

Duration

1

Frequency

A number of times per year

Theme
Bioinformatics

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