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Advanced R Programming
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
- Subtitles in Chinese
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Welcome to Advanced R Programming
This course covers advanced topics in R programming that are necessary for developing powerful, robust, and reusable data science tools. Topics covered include functional programming in R, robust error handling, object oriented programming, profiling and bench... - Week 1 - Functions
This module begins with control structures in R for controlling the logical flow of an R program. We then move on to functions, their role in R programming, and some guidelines for writing good functions. - Week 2 - Functional Programming
Functional programming is a key aspect of R and is one of R's differentiating factors as a data analysis language. Understanding the concepts of functional programming will help you to become a better data science software developer. In addition, we cover erro... - Week 3 - Debugging and Profiling
Debugging tools are useful for analyzing your code when it exhibits unexpected behavior. We go through the various debugging tools in R and how they can be used to identify problems in code. Profiling tools allow you to see where your code spends its time and ... - Week 4 - Object-Oriented Programming
Object oriented programming allows you to define custom data types or classes and a set of functions for handling that data type in a way that you define. R has a three different methods for implementing object oriented programming and we will cover them in th...
Prerequisite
Instructors
Roger D. Peng, PhD
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Brooke Anderson
Assistant Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
Colorado State University
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