This is a two-day intensive course on advanced R programming. The training course will not only cover advanced R programming techniques, such as S3/S4 objects, reference classes and function closures, we will spend a significant time discussing why and where these methods are used. The course will be a mixture of lectures and computer practicals. By the end of the course, participants will be able to use OOP within there own code.

Course Outline

• Functions:
  • Scoping rules (including lexical scope)
  • The ... argument
  • Functions as first class objects
  • Functions closures and mutable states
  • Argument matching
• Customising your workspace
  • The .Rprofile and .Renviron files
• Dealing with errors
  • Messages, warnings and errors
  • Using try and tryCatch effectively
• S3 classes:
  • Introduction to object-oriented programming
  • Constructing S3 objects
  • Drawbacks
• S4 and reference classes:
  • Creating and using S4 and reference classes
  • Differences between S3 and S4

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