R object-oriented programming and package development

Prerequisites

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.

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• 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

• 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

Number of sessions: 1

• 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

• To help users advance their R programming skills to be able to begin writing object-oriented code and/or developing R packages

Presentation and demonstrations

1

A number of times per year