Common data manipulation for R programmers

duration: 1 day

This module allows you to be a better programmer by writing your own functions, getting acquainted with commonly used R functions for basic data manipulation and the R object oriented programming environment.

The following is covered in this module:

• with, within, by, apply family of functions & split-apply-combine strategy

• vectorisation, parallel execution of code

• data.table - fast group by, joining and data.

• table programming tricksbasic regular expressions

• writing your own functions

• do.call

• reshaping from wide to long format

• environments

• S3 classes, generics and basic S4 methodology

• handling of errors and exceptions, debugging code

Be prepared on some tough exercises, so bring your laptop.

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