Package Building and Literate Programming with R

Títol del curs: Package Building and Literate Programming with R

Impartit per: Alexandre Sánchez Pla, prof. titular, Dep. d’Estadística, UB.

Llengua del curs: Castellà.

Dates i horaris del curs: 15 a 17 de juliol, dies 15 i 16 de 9 a 13:30 h, dia 17 de 9 a 11 h.

Lloc: aula PC3

Tipus d'activitat i càrrega lectiva: Curs de 10 hores.

Reconeixement acadèmic: 1,5 ECTS com a assignatura optativa per als estudiants del MEIO UPC-UB, com a assignaturas de lliure  elecció per a estudiants de màster, grau i llicenciatura i com a crèdits de doctorat.

Objetius:

 

Understand package structure and learn how to create your own package.
Understand what literate programming is and learn at least two ways two do it: Sweave/Latex and markdown/knitr.

Contingut:

 

• Building R packages (4 hours)
• The tools needed to build packages in linux and windows
• Steps to build a package. Minimum components
• Creating the documentation
• Building checking and installing your package

• Literate programming with R
• What s literate programming
• The traditional R approach: Sweave
• Modern approaches: knitr/markdown/pandoc, org-mode/babel etc

 

Referències:

 

• Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part I: Mixing R and Latex. R News, 2(3):28-31, December 2002.
• Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part II: Package vignettes. R News, 3(2):21-24, October 2003.
• Knitr: A General-Purpose Tool for Dynamic Report Generation in R.

 

Avaluació: Será necesario crear un paquete que incluya una viñeta realizada mediante Sweave o knitr.