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Course Catalog 2011-2012
SGN-6166 Introduction to R programming, 3 cr
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Lessons
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Description:
Students will learn basic programming skills with R. In addition, most often used packages provided by Bioconductor will be in use.
Person responsible:
Tommi Aho
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Additional information of course implementation:
Schedule ******** * Week 1: Introduction to the course: contents, grading. 1 Introduction and preliminaries; 2 Simple manipulations; numbers and vectors; 13 Packages * Week 2: 3 Objects, their modes and attributes; 4 Ordered and unordered factors * Week 3: 5 Arrays and matrices; 6 Lists and data frames On Monday: information about the course assignment. * Week 4: 7 Reading data from files; 8 Probability distributions * Week 5: 9 Grouping, loops and conditional execution; 10 Writing your own functions * Week 6: 11 Statistical models in R; 12 Graphical procedures The first week cancellation will not be postponed to another time. Instead, the course has been arranged so that the remaining 6 weeks and the assignment work cover the material. Exercises ********* Exercises are not mandatory but you can get points by participating them. There are no tasks you should complete before an exercise. If you cannot participate an exercise and you still would like to complete one, you may email to the lecturer and ask for permission to make an exercise by your own. In that case, you should ask the tasks by email between Monday and Wednesday and return your answers on Wednesday 24PM at latest. Grading ******* Exercises: 1 point for participation / exercise, max 6 points in total. Course assignment work: 30 points. NOTE: There is no exam for the course. Instead the course grading is based only on exercises and the course assignment work. In POP we have 3 exam dates announced. These dates are not valid as there is no exam.