Department of Statistics and Operations Research

January 26th, 2016: Seminar of John Fox

Jan 21, 2016

SEMINAR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

 

 Seminar:  Writing R Packages

 

Speaker:  Dr John Fox, professor of the Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Canada.

 

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS (FACULTAT DE BIOLOGIA. AVDA DIAGONAL 643, EDIFICI AULARI – AULA 18 )

 

JANUARY 26TH, 2016.       11H00 A.M. (approximate duration)

 

John Fox is (very) well known in the R community for many contributions to R, including the car package (which anyone who is interested in performing SS type II and III repeated measures anova in R, is sure to come by), the Rcmdr pacakge (one of the two major GUI’s for R, the second one is Deducer), sem (for Structural Equation Models) and more .

 

Writing R Packages

 

The R statistical programming language and computing environment has become the de-facto standard for writing statistical software among statisticians and has made substantial inroads in the social sciences -- it is now possibly the most widely used statistical software in the world. R is a free, open-source implementation of the S language, and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix/Linux systems. The basic R system is developed and maintained by the R Core group, comprising 20 members, many of them eminent in the field of statistical computing. The R Project for Statistical Computing is a project of the R Foundation, whose membership includes the R Core group and several other individuals, and is also associated with the Free Software Foundation.

 

I'll cover R-related topics related to how to writing R packages; Packages are the fundamental units of reproducible R code. They include reusable R functions, the documentation that describes how to use them, and sample data. In this seminar you’ll learn how to turn your code into packages that others can easily download and use. Writing a package can seem overwhelming at first. So start with the basics and improve it over time. It doesn’t matter if your first version isn’t perfect as long as the next version is better.

Link: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Courses/R/IQSBarcelona/index.html