Improve Your R Code

Overview

Improve Your R Code is a hands-on workshop designed for learners who already have some familiarity with R and want to take their skills to the next level. This course focuses on improving coding style, efficiency, and best practices in R.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will:

• Write clean, readable, and maintainable R code by following the tidyverse style guide.

• Use benchmarking tools like microbenchmark to assess code performance.

• Optimise code execution using techniques such as vectorisation and parallel processing.

• Make use of packages such as data.table, parallel, parallelly, and Rcpp to write faster R programs.

• Understand and apply reproducible and stylistic practices using tools like styler.

Pre-requisite Knowlede

This workshop is designed for learners who:

• Have prior experience working with R and R scripts.

• Are familiar with basic R syntax and using functions.

• Have used R interactively in environments like RStudio or Jupyter.

If you are not comfortable with some of these topics then you may wish to attend some of our other R programming language courses.