BST 140.776 Statistical Computing

Instructors: Karl Broman, Brian Caffo, Rafael Irizarry, Roger Peng, Ingo Ruczinski
TA: Benilton Carvalho
Class Times: 3:30-4:50 MF
Class Room: Wolfe W4019
TA Office Hours: T-TH 1:00-2:00 in E3009
Required Course Materials: Access to a computer, account on athena
Student Evaluation: Four computing assignments

HW1 as a pdf file. Please hand in on Wednesday 9/22/04 by emailing your LaTeX file to Benilton. You will need to read in this postscripf file.
HW2 as a pdf file. The solutions as R code.
HW 3 was due October 18th.
Homework 4 as a pdf file. The solutions as a gzipped tar file.

Lecture	Topic	Instructor(s)	Notes/Materials/links
9/3	unix/linux cygwin bash	Rafa and Brian	Rafa's notes on Unix/Linux Brian's notes Linux/Windows Brian's notes on bash Some software links for Windows
9/10	emacs	Brian	Brian's notes on emacs and free software Some instructions on downloading and installing NT emacs and some emacs links
9/13	LaTeX	Brian	Brian's notes on LaTeX Some notes on installing auctex on MS Windows LaTeX links
9/17	LaTeX	Brian	A quick note on Make Web site of LaTeX documentation The not so short introduction to LaTeX Using imported graphics in LaTeX
9/20	R	Ingo	Ingo's notes on R - Part 1: Getting Started Ingo's notes on R - Part 2: Data Types and Manipulation Introduction to R: CRAN Introduction to R: Karl's web page R reference card CRAN webpage R project webpage R mode for WinEdit
9/24	R	Ingo	Ingo's notes on R - Part 3: Data Import/Export Ingo's notes on R - Part 4: Computing/Programming
9/27	R	Ingo	Ingo's notes on R - Part 5: Graphics and Statistics
10/1	Coding Practices Version Control	Karl and Roger	Karl's notes on coding practices Some references on coding practice
10/4	R	Roger	Roger's older notes on R Roger's older notes on debugging Roger's notes on R debugging Roger's notes on object oriented programming in R Roger's notes on version control
10/8	R Packages	Rafa	Rafa's notes on building R packages The R package that he built in class Writing R Extensions
10/11	R Packages Literate Programming	Rafa	HW3 as a pdf file The R package Rafa wrote in class
10/15	C, R's C API	Karl	Karl's notes on C programming Some C references Karl's C code How to expand a tar.gz file
10/18	C, R's C API	Karl	HW4 as a pdf file
10/22	C, R's C API	Karl	Karl's notes on C programming III Example C/R Code
10/25	.Call in R Mathematica	Brian and Ingo	Brian's .Call notes the code for the examples from the notes Ingo's Mathematica notes A Mathematica notebook Wolfram homepage Wolfram infocenter FAQ page Another page with tips and tricks Some Mathematica fonts for the X environment Installing the Mathematica fonts
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