[R] Course***Advanced R/Splus Programming***Boston, January 2004 by XLSolutions Corp

[elvis@xlsolutions-corp.com]

Happy New Year
XSolutions Corp (www.xlsolutions-corp.com) is proud to announce
a 2-day "Advanced R/Splus programming" taught by R Development
Core Team Guru.
 
*********Boston ----------  January 29-30, 2004
*********Washington DC ----------  TBD
            Reserve your seat Now  (payment due after the class)
Registration:
www.xlsolutions-corp.com/training.htm
Email Sue Turner: sue at xlsolutions-corp.com
Phone: 206-686-1578
Course outline:
- Overview of R/S fundamentals: Syntax and Semantics
- Class and Inheritance in R/S-Plus
- Concepts, Construction and good use of language objects
- Coercion and efficiency
- Object-oriented programming in R and S-Plus
- Advanced manipulation tools: Parse, Deparse, Substitute, etc.
- How to fully take advantage of Vectorization
- Generic and Method Functions; S4 (S-Plus 6)
- Search path, databases and frames Visibility
- Working with large objects
- Handling Properly Recursion and iterative calculations
- Managing loops; For (S-Plus) and for() loops
- Consequences of Lazy Evaluation
- Efficient Code practices for large computations
- Memory management and Resource monitoring
- Writing R/S-Plus functions to call compiled code
- Writing and debugging compiled code for R/S-Plus system
- Connecting R/S-Plus to External Data Sources
- Understanding the structure of model fitting functions in R/S-Plus
- Designing and Packaging efficiently 
 Early-bird group research fee: $995!
This course will also deal with lots of S-Plus efficiency issues and
any special topics from participants is welcome.
Please let us know if you and your colleagues are interested in this
class to take advantage of group discount. Over half of the seats in
both classes are currently reserved.  Register now to secure your seat 
in this course!
 
Cheers,
Elvis Miller, PhD
Manager Training.
XLSolutions Corporation
206 686 1578
www.xlsolutions-corp.com