Introduction to programming in R

Dozierende	Dries Debeer, Benjamin Becker
Abschluss	Confirmation of participation
Zielpublikum	Advanced R users from all professional groups. (For introductory R courses please revisit the course list.)
Kosten	CHF 600.- für Angehörige der UZH/ETH und assoziierter Institute CHF 800.- für Alumni der UZH/ETH, Angehörige anderer Universtitäten, Einrichtungen der öffentlichen Hand und non-profit Organisationen CHF 1200.- für Firmen Personen ohne Anstellung können sich auf Anfrage zum UZH/ETH Preis anmelden.
Kurssprache	Englisch/Deutsch (depending on the composition of the participants)
Beschreibung	In various scientific fields R has become as a popular tool for data processing, analysis and visualization. Yet in addition to a software package for statistical and data analysis, R is also a fully functioning programming language. Moreover, one of the main design principles of R is to "turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully" (John Chambers). However, many R users have limited programming background and may not be aware of the full potential of R. This course introduces R as a programming language. The basic building stones of the language will be explained using examples and exercises. The aim is to provide R users the experience and the tools to automate R-tasks that have to be done repeatedly, by writing efficient code and helpful functions. After the course, participants should be able to read, understand, and adapt code from others, as well as write their own functions, and use the complex tool R more efficiently. After setting up an RStudio environment that supports writing efficient and elegant R-code, the following topics are covered during the course: - Basic elements and data types of the programming language R - Flow and conditional programming - Loops and iteration - Writing functions - Good programming practices - Programming tools in R: run time analysis, debugging, exception handling
Daten	30.September-01. Oktober 2021 [neues Datum] Anmeldung
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