Introduction to R programming

Lecturer	Friedrich Leisch, Institute for Applied Statistics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Duration	2 days
Certificate	Certificate of attendence
Target audience	Advanced R users from all professional groups. (For introductory R courses please revisit the course list.)
Costs	CHF 600.- for members of UZH/ETH and associated institutes CHF 800.- for alumni of UZH/ETH, members of other universities, the public sector and non-profit organizations CHF 1200.- for companies Persons without current employment can register for the UZH/ETH fee upon request.
Course language	English/German (depending on the composition of the participants)
Course description	Statistical data analysis has developed into a computational science over the last decades. One of the main design principles of S, the programming language implemented by R, has been to "turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully" (John Chambers, author of S). This course will help users with some experience in using R as a data analysis environment to write their first functions to efficiently automate tasks that have to be done repeatedly, e.g., on larger data sets. This allows practitioners to use the complex tool R much more efficiently. Topics include: basic elements and data types of the programming language R writing functions in R programming tools: run time analysis, debugging, exception handling good programming practices object oriented programming with S3 and S4 implementation of statistical models using formulas creating R packages
	For all Zurich R Courses participants should bring their own laptops to the course and will be informed by email in advance which packages they need to install.
Dates	June 21-22, 2018
	After registering you will receive a short automatic confirmation by email. If you received this email you are successfully and bindingly registered for the course. For administrative reasons the written invoice won't be sent out until about two weeks before the course.