This advanced R programming course covers advanced topics in R programming that are necessary for developing powerful, robust, and reusable data science tools.

Syllabus for advanced course on R programming:

Section 1: Functional Programming

  • Introduction to functional programming
  • Functions as first-class objects
  • Higher-order functions
  • Functionals from the purrr package

Section 2: Object-Oriented Programming

  • Introduction to object-oriented programming
  • S3 and S4 object systems
  • Creating and manipulating objects
  • Object-oriented design patterns

Section 3: Advanced Data Manipulation

  • Working with large datasets
  • Data manipulation with data.table and dplyr
  • Joining datasets
  • Reshaping data with tidyr

Section 4: Advanced Visualization

  • Creating interactive visualizations with ggplot2 and plotly
  • Visualizing geographic data with maps and leaflet
  • Creating dashboards with Shiny

Section 5: Advanced Statistical Modeling

  • Bayesian inference with Stan
  • Generalized linear models with glm() and lme4
  • Mixed-effects models with nlme and lme4
  • Nonlinear regression with nls()

Section 6: Parallel Computing

  • Introduction to parallel computing
  • Parallel computing with base R and parallel
  • Parallel computing with doParallel and foreach
  • High-performance computing with Rmpi

Section 7: Advanced Programming Techniques

  • Memoization
  • Profiling and benchmarking
  • Code optimization
  • Creating and distributing packages

Section 8: Final Project

  • Students work on a final project applying advanced R programming techniques to a real-world problem or dataset
  • Presentations and feedback