STAT 541 - Advanced Statistical Computing in R

a 4-unit second course on computing in R, covering various “advanced” methods in R

Updates coming!

This course is being updated to be taught in late March 2025. Check back soon!

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Course description

These materials accompany the 4-unit, 2-day, hands-on coding course, STAT 541 - Advanced Statistical Computing in R, offered through the Masters in Statistics.

In this course, students dive deeper into the statistical computing concepts they were introduced to in their STAT 331 course. Students explore more advanced visualization methods using {leaflet} and {gganimate}, learn how to create dashboards with {shiny}, retrieve data from APIs, scrape data from the web using {rvest} and {httr2}, create their own R packages with the help of {usethis}, and generate fun works of art. The later topics require an understanding of iterative programming, and makes use of the{purrr} package.

When is this taught?

At Cal Poly, this course is taught every spring quarter. There are a few of us who alternate teaching the course, so I may end up taking a break in the next few years.