Programming in R (advanced)

• CHF 600.- for members of UZH/ETH and associated institutes
• CHF 800.- for alumni of UZH/ETH, members of other universities, the public sector and non-profit organizations
• CHF 1200.- for companies

Persons without current employment can register for the UZH/ETH fee upon request.

Statistical data analysis has developed into a computational science over the last decades. One of the main design principles of S, the programming language implemented by R, has been to "turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully" (John Chambers, author of S). This course will help users with some experience in using R as a data analysis environment to write their first functions to efficiently automate tasks that have to be done repeatedly, e.g., on larger data sets. This allows practitioners to use the complex tool R much more efficiently.
Topics include:

• basic elements and data types of the programming language R
• writing functions in R
• programming tools: run time analysis, debugging, exception handling
• good programming practices
• object oriented programming with S3 and S4
• implementation of statistical models using formulas
• creating R packages

For all Zurich R Courses participants should bring their own laptops to the course. Internet access will be provided, to allow installation of any required software and packages.