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Schedule

• 8:30 - 8:50 [BB] joining explained, hw, interactive visualizations of groups shared:

  • ccimpacts
  • fish-ecol
  • fishmgt JHC
  • fishmgt CF
  • pollute

• 8:50 - 9:30 [NT] programing part 2 Slides

• 9:45 - 10:00 break

• 10:00 - 11:00 [NT] testing Slides

• 11:00 - 11:30 [NT] documentation Slides

• NEW! Quick Intro to Package Development with devtools

Assignments (Group)

• Write a set of functions to do some data analysis, data generation or modeling that include at least one nested function
• Generate 3 automatic tests for your function
• Include documentation that will generate a help page for each function
• Post the source code on your group's git site

Resources

• Zip for Rpackage examples
• Markdown for running examples

coding practice

• Commentary on coding best practices
• Best Practices for Scientific Computing (Wilson et al., 2014)
• A Scientist’s Perspective on Sustainable Scientific Software. Journal of Open Research Software

testing

• Top 12 Reasons to Write Unit Tests - Burke and Coyner (Java programmers)

making packages

• Really good online book on how to make a package for distribution
• Package Development with devtools Cheat Sheet

asides

• dplyr - window functions like lead(), lag(), cumsum() with group_by(), filter(), summarize(), and mutate() can perform many operations that you might otherwise wrap in a for loop or apply() function.