Advanced R Programming

Linux Operating System

This course is for data scientists and statisticians that already have basic R & C++ coding skills and R code and need advanced R coding skills.

The purpose is to give a practical advanced R programming course to participants interested in applying the methods at work.

Sector specific examples are used to make the training relevant to the audience

• R's environment
• Object oriented programming in R
• S3
• S4
• Reference classes
• Performance profiling
• Exception handling
• Debugging R code
• Creating R packages
• Unit testing
• C/C++ coding in R
• SEXPRs
• Calling dynamically loaded libraries from R
• Writing and compiling C/C++ code from R
• Improving R's performance with C++ linear algebra library