Lectures
Introduction to machine learning
A brief intro to the why and what for machine learning
Python for R users
Introduction to using Python in R and the reticulate package
Strategies to deal with large data in R
Introduction to dealing with large data in R.
SQL Basics
Introduction to SQL basics in R
Regular expression
Introduction to working with character strings and regular expressions inR
Working with dates and times
Introduction to lubridate for dates and times in R.
Object Oriented Programming
Introduction to S3, S4, or reference class with generics and methods.
Building R Packages
Introduction to building and documenting R packages.
Debugging R Code
Help! What's wrong with my code???
Error Handling and Generation
Implement exception handling routines in R functions
Profiling R Code
Introduction to understand how much time is spent on different parts of your R code (i.e. profiling).
Functions
Introduction to writing functions in R.
Vectorization and loop functionals
Introduction to vectorization and loop functionals.
Control Structures
Introduction to control the flow of execution of a series of R expressions.
R Nuts and Bolts
Introduction to data types and objects in R.
The ggplot2 plotting system: qplot()
An overview of the ggplot2 plotting system in R with qplot().
The ggplot2 plotting system: ggplot()
An overview of the ggplot2 plotting system in R with ggplot().
Joining data in R
Introduction to relational data and join functions in the dplyr R package.
Tidy data and the Tidyverse
Introduction to tidy data and how to convert between wide and long data with the tidyr R package.
Plotting Systems
Overview of three plotting systems in R
Managing data frames with the Tidyverse
An introduction to data frames in R and the managing them with the dplyr R package.
Reading and Writing data
How to get data in and out of R using relative paths
Literate Statistical Programming
Introduction to literate statistical programming tools including R Markdown.
Reference management
How to use citations and incorporate references from a bibliography in R Markdown.
Reproducible Research
Introduction to reproducible research covering some basic concepts and ideas that are related to reproducible reporting
Introduction to git/GitHub
Version control is a game changer; or how I learned to love git/GitHub
Introduction to R and RStudio
Let's dig into the R programming language and the RStudio integrated developer environment
Welcome!
Overview course information for students enrolled in JHSPH Biostatistics 140.776 in Fall 2021