High-performance computing with R

Room: Chernoff Hall 213 // Date: 2 August @ 9 am // Instructor: Jeff Stafford, Centre for Advanced Computing

The R programming language has become the standard tool for data science, statistics, and bioinformatics. This course focuses on making your R code as fast as possible, including topics on performance optimization and parallelization. There will be a major emphasis on newer additions to the language, in particular, the “tidyverse” set of packages. Prerequisites

Prerequisites

Please come to the workshop with both R and RStudio installed. You may also wish to pre-install the “tidyverse” set of R packages with install.packages("tidyverse").

Materials

High Performance R

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