R for Advanced Users (RSS1.12) - Closed

This 5-day in-person course aims to further solidify and deepen the understanding of R for those users who already have basic data analysis skills in this programming language. The course is largely dedicated to writing more efficient R code by creating functions and integrating them into packages, but touches upon a series of other topics in advanced R as well. 
The course begins with a primer on control-flows and iterations where participants will refresh their knowledge of the basic tools for implementing choice statements and loops into R, but also learn how to work with their base R replacements in the apply() function family. After this introductory topic, we will proceed with the core of the course where we will learn and practice the creation of user-defined functions as essential objects that allow for the automation of common tasks. Throughout the rest of the course we will discuss Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in R, in particular S3 classes and generic print() functions, and we will look into how to combine functions that serve similar goals into minimal R packages and how to store these packages for personal or for sharing purposes. 
Finally, we also approach topics such as creating R Markdown documents that combine narrative text and code and building interactive web applications in R using Shiny.