R help - Nov 2004 - Course ****R/S System: Advanced Programming, Seattle***December 20-21

R/S Advanced Programming course in Seattle on 
December 20-21
Please check out the full description and Agenda of 
the 2-day class on the website:

www.xlsolutions-corp.com/Radv.htm


And let us know if we should hold seats for you.
Ask for group discount!


Here's the outline:

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 


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. Register now to secure your
seat 
in this course!

Cheers,
Elvis Miller, PhD
Manager Training.
XLSolutions Corporation
206 686 1578
www.xlsolutions-corp.com