Topics

The following is a list of the topics we will most likely cover, given time constraints and different interests of students. The order is approximate and we will tend to introduce topics to make you aware of them and then revisit them in greater detail.

Getting started with R Running R, finding functions and objects, issuing commands, getting help pages, generating random data, creating graphics, different graphics The R Language basic data structures - vectors (integer, numeric, logical, character) and lists. matrices data frames subsetting details of function calls argument matching copying of arguments vectorized operations Basic graphics and devices Programming control flow: if, for, while. writing functions vectorization debugging tools & strategies basics of methods and object-oriented programming in R efficiency testing code Graphics traditional graphics basic plot types graphics parameters annotating plots layouts lattice basic plot types formula language conditioning groups legends/keys Input reading non-standard data formats regular expression language connections Shell Remote login Shell command line language Useful commands/tools. Redirection (to and from files, pipes connecting output from one command as input to another) Access data from the Web Scraping HTML documents. HTML forms. APIs via REST and SOAP. Parsing XML and XPath. Graphics Guidelines for good graphics Graphics for the Web interactivity animation Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: Running R,
finding functions and objects,
issuing commands, getting help pages,
generating random data,
creating graphics, different graphics
The R Language basic data structures - vectors (integer, numeric, logical, character) and lists. matrices data frames subsetting details of function calls argument matching copying of arguments vectorized operations Basic graphics and devices Programming control flow: if, for, while. writing functions vectorization debugging tools & strategies basics of methods and object-oriented programming in R efficiency testing code Graphics traditional graphics basic plot types graphics parameters annotating plots layouts lattice basic plot types formula language conditioning groups legends/keys Input reading non-standard data formats regular expression language connections Shell Remote login Shell command line language Useful commands/tools. Redirection (to and from files, pipes connecting output from one command as input to another) Access data from the Web Scraping HTML documents. HTML forms. APIs via REST and SOAP. Parsing XML and XPath. Graphics Guidelines for good graphics Graphics for the Web interactivity animation Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: basic data structures - vectors (integer, numeric, logical, character) and lists.
matrices
data frames
subsetting
details of function calls

argument matching
copying of arguments

vectorized operations
Basic graphics and devices
Programming control flow: if, for, while. writing functions vectorization debugging tools & strategies basics of methods and object-oriented programming in R efficiency testing code Graphics traditional graphics basic plot types graphics parameters annotating plots layouts lattice basic plot types formula language conditioning groups legends/keys Input reading non-standard data formats regular expression language connections Shell Remote login Shell command line language Useful commands/tools. Redirection (to and from files, pipes connecting output from one command as input to another) Access data from the Web Scraping HTML documents. HTML forms. APIs via REST and SOAP. Parsing XML and XPath. Graphics Guidelines for good graphics Graphics for the Web interactivity animation Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: control flow: if, for, while.
writing functions
vectorization
debugging tools & strategies
basics of methods and object-oriented programming in R
efficiency
testing code
Graphics traditional graphics basic plot types graphics parameters annotating plots layouts lattice basic plot types formula language conditioning groups legends/keys Input reading non-standard data formats regular expression language connections Shell Remote login Shell command line language Useful commands/tools. Redirection (to and from files, pipes connecting output from one command as input to another) Access data from the Web Scraping HTML documents. HTML forms. APIs via REST and SOAP. Parsing XML and XPath. Graphics Guidelines for good graphics Graphics for the Web interactivity animation Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: traditional graphics

basic plot types
graphics parameters
annotating plots
layouts

lattice

basic plot types
formula language
conditioning
groups
legends/keys
Input reading non-standard data formats regular expression language connections Shell Remote login Shell command line language Useful commands/tools. Redirection (to and from files, pipes connecting output from one command as input to another) Access data from the Web Scraping HTML documents. HTML forms. APIs via REST and SOAP. Parsing XML and XPath. Graphics Guidelines for good graphics Graphics for the Web interactivity animation Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: reading non-standard data formats
regular expression language
connections
Shell Remote login Shell command line language Useful commands/tools. Redirection (to and from files, pipes connecting output from one command as input to another) Access data from the Web Scraping HTML documents. HTML forms. APIs via REST and SOAP. Parsing XML and XPath. Graphics Guidelines for good graphics Graphics for the Web interactivity animation Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: Remote login
Shell command line language
Useful commands/tools.
Redirection (to and from files, pipes connecting output from one command as input to another)
Access data from the Web Scraping HTML documents. HTML forms. APIs via REST and SOAP. Parsing XML and XPath. Graphics Guidelines for good graphics Graphics for the Web interactivity animation Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: Scraping HTML documents.
HTML forms.
APIs via REST and SOAP.
Parsing XML and XPath.
Graphics Guidelines for good graphics Graphics for the Web interactivity animation Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: Guidelines for good graphics
Graphics for the Web

interactivity
animation
Statistical Techniques cross validation bootstrapping k nearest neighbors random number generation simulation: cross validation
bootstrapping
k nearest neighbors
random number generation
simulation

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>

Last modified: Fri Sep 25 07:23:02 PDT 2009