401-6228-00L  Programming with R for Reproducible Research

SemesterFrühjahrssemester 2014
DozierendeM. Mächler
Periodizitätjährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung
LehrspracheEnglisch


KurzbeschreibungDeeper understanding of R: Function calls, rather than "commands".
Reproducible research and data analysis via Sweave and Rmarkdown.
Limits of floating point arithmetic.
Understanding how functions work. Environments, packages, namespaces.
Closures, i.e., Functions returning functions.
Lists and [mc]lapply() for easy parallelization.
Performance measurement and improvements.
Lernziel
InhaltSee https://stat.ethz.ch/education/semesters/ss2014/Progr_R3
SkriptMaterial available from
https://stat.ethz.ch/education/semesters/ss2014/Progr_R3
LiteraturNorman Matloff (2011) The Art of R Programming - A tour of statistical software design.
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Voraussetzungen / BesonderesR Knowledge on the same level as after *both* parts of the ETH lecture
401-6217-00L Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics
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