Advanced R

Synopsis

This website contains the teaching materials for STAT 496/696 Advanced R, taught at American University by David Gerard.

This repository contains material based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2132247. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Administrative

• Syllabus

Lectures

• 01 Git/GitHub
  • Bash Basics
  • Setting up Git and GitHub
  • Git and GitHub
  • Lab 01: Bash and Git
• 02 R Packages
  • R Packages
  • Lab 02: R Packages
• 03 Best Practices
  • Assertions and Testing
  • Package Checking and Continuous Integration
  • Coding Style
• 04 Foundations
  • Memory
  • Vectors
  • Subsetting
  • Control Flow
  • Functions
  • Environments
• 05 Object-oriented Programming
  • OOP Introduction
  • S3 Objects
  • S4 Objects
  • Lab S4
  • S4 and Bioconductor
• 06 Metaprogramming
  • Brief Overview of Metaprogramming
  • Formulas
• 07 Performance/Profiling/Memory
  • Profiling and Microbenchmarking
  • Performant R Code
• 08 C++ and Rcpp
  • Integrating C++ and R
  • C++ Basics and Scalars
  • Vectors / Vector Operations
  • Rcpp Sugar
  • Matrices / Matrix Operations
• 09 Parallel Processing
  • Futures and Parallel Processing
  • Batch Processing and LSF
  • Minimal LSF Example for Zorro and R

Final Project

• Final project description

Student Final Projects

All students listed as maintainers in the following repos provided their permission for their packages to be made public.

• {marvalr}: An R package for interfacing with the Marval API through R.
• {roeis}: An R package for interfacing with the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
• {sgroupr}: An R package for implementations of small finite groups as S3 vectors.
• {ggedf}: A {ggplot2} extension for visualizing the empirical distribution function.

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