TILS4100 Advanced R (4 cr)

The course provides students with a deeper understanding of using R for data analysis and statistical programming. Topics considered in the course are

• R data structures and subsetting
• functions in R
• Plotting using R
• Rmarkdown
• Debugging and profiling R code
• Introduction to Shiny
• Introduction to the tidyverse
  

Upon successfully completing the course, students will:

• Be able to use R efficiently for data analysis.
• Be able to write own efficient R functions
• Produce statistical reports using Rmarkdown
• Write some basic web application using R

Students taking this course are expected to have a basic knowledge of statistics, especially linear models. Some knowledge about linear algebra is expected too.

Knowledge of LaTeX is beneficial but not compulsory.