Navigation auf uzh.ch

Suche

UZH Continuing Education

Good Software Engineering Practice for R Packages

Qualification

 Confirmation of participation

Target Audience

 Experienced R users who already are familiar and fluent with writing R functions (or even Shiny apps) with at least 1 year experience in using R, and who would like to build R packages with "best practices" such as good package design, clean code, version control, documentation, tests.

Fees
  • 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.

E-mail

 zhRcourses@psychologie.uzh.ch

Description

 In this course participants will learn hands-on skills and tools to engineer reliable R packages. The workshop will be conducted in two days and will be a mix of presentations and exercises.

Participants need to be comfortable with writing functions in R (at least 1 year experience) and use their own laptops as a prerequisite.

Topics include:
  • R Package Syntax
  • Software Engineering Workflow
  • Package Quality
  • Collaboration via GitHub
  • Publication of R Packages
  • Considerations for Shiny Development.

For all Zurich R Courses participants should bring their own laptops to the course. Internet access will be provided, to allow installation of any required software and packages.

Dates

 On Request

Instructor

 Daniel Sabanes Bove, Senior Principal Data Scientist at Roche Ltd

Enrolment
Top