TILS4100 Advanced course in R programming (4 cr)

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

• Unique features of the R language
• Object-oriented programming
• Graphics and plotting
• Dynamic documents and Quarto
• Debugging and profiling R code
• Application development: Shiny and R packages
• Parallel computation
  
• Interfaces to other programming languages
• tidyverse packages

Upon successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

• Use R independently for data wrangling and analysis.
• Write efficient R code.
• Produce statistical reports.
• Write simple applications using R.
• Understand the basics of functional programming.
• Use parallelization for intensive computation.

Statistical software: R-subcourse. Data visualization and analysis and From data to model or equivalent skills. Basics of linear algebra.