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Short course using RStudio for biological data analysis

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Ideas for programming concepts #45

Open sheridar opened 5 years ago

sheridar commented 5 years ago

Functions

when to write, structure, arguments, naming
conditional statements
checking inputs
dots

Iteration

for loop structure, looping patterns
map
map2, pmap, walk
reduce

Stringr

getting/setting/truncating (length, sub, dup, trunc)
whitespace (pad, trim)
pattern matching (detect, subset, extract, replace, split)
regex (multi-char matching, alternation, anchors, repetition)

Factors

reorder, relevel, infreq, inorder, lump

kriemo commented 5 years ago

Add discussion of base data types in R and how to check