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Course Details

Course Outline
Learning Outcomes
Materials
Prior Knowledge

Course Outline

Advanced Functions:
- Scoping rules (including lexical scope)
- The … argument
- Argument matching
S3 classes:
- Introduction to object-oriented programming
- Constructing S3 objects
- Drawbacks
S4 classes:
- Creating and using S4 classes
- Differences between S3 and S4 classes
R6 classes
- Differences between {R6} and S3/S4
- Mutable states
- Creating methods
- Shallow and deep copies

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to…

Select the most appropriate form of OOP for their task
Leverage encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance to provide a nice user interface to their code
Write functions with rich results, user-friendly display and programmer-friendly internals
Extend the functionality of functions for new object types
Write code that is extensible by others

Materials

Prior Knowledge

This course assumes that participants are comfortable with the fundamentals of R programming, writing functions and control flow. It follows on from the Programming with R course.

Attendee Feedback

“Really great course! Useful content that will greatly benefit me in my future R projects.”
“The instructor was excellent. The course material that was written and that prepared for the R sessions was very good, and is a resource I can draw upon in the future.”
“The course was well structured had lots of useful examples and gave the opportunity to practice the skills taught.”

Training Course Details

Object Oriented Programming in R

Course Level: Advanced