This 3-day advanced course is targeted at life scientists or bioinformaticians who are already comfortable using the R statistical software in practice, and want to extend their knowledge. Lectures will be conducted in the morning, with practicals in the afternoon.

Topics covered include, among others:

  • Data structures in R
  • R internals
  • Object-oriented programming in R
  • Best practices for programming in R
  • Using R to conduct reproducible analysis
  • Data structures and manipulation of data within R
  • Profiling code