R object-oriented programming and package development

Prerequisites

The course will teach intermediate R object-oriented programming and how to build a fully functional R package.

The course page includes slides and handouts; other relevant teaching materials are available here) and the sequences example package used as template in the course can be found here.

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• Graduate students, Postdocs and Staff members from the University of Cambridge, Affiliated Institutions and other external Institutions or individuals
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• A good knowledge of R and some active programming experience is required.
• Only attending Introduction to R would not provide sufficient background for this course.
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming would be an advantage, but is not essential.

Number of sessions: 1

After this course you should be able to:

• use object-oriented programming in R and build your own packages

During this course you will learn about:

• 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 *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

Presentation and demonstrations

1

A number of times per year