Efficient R – How to write faster code workshop

Join our workshop on Efficient R – How to write faster code, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

Here’s some more info: 

Title: Efficient R – How to write faster code

Date: Thursday, August 28th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Selina Baldauf, Selina is a theoretical ecologist and a scientific programmer at the Freie Universität in Berlin. She supports researchers in writing clear, efficient, and reproducible code, with a focus on practical, applied solutions. Her work includes teaching R, data analysis, and scientific coding to her fellow researchers. With a PhD in ecology and a passion for computer science, she helps scientists bridge the gap between ecological research and programming.

Description: Writing efficient R code is key to handling large datasets, reducing runtimes, and making your workflows more scalable. In this workshop, you’ll learn practical strategies to find and fix performance issues and how to use packages that improve code speed and memory efficiency. The topics include:

– Profiling and benchmarking to find slow code and compare alternatives with `profvis` and `microbenchmark`

– Best practices to avoid common bottlenecks

– Efficient data analysis using packages like `data.table`, `collapse`, and `arrow`

– Parallelization with packages from the `futureverse`

– C++ integration to boost performance further with `Rcpp`

The session includes live demonstrations and code examples to follow during or after the workshop. Whether you’re an experienced R user looking to optimize your code, or a beginner curious about writing more efficient scripts, this session offers insights and tools you can apply to your work.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)

Please note that the registration confirmation is sent 1 day before the workshop to all registered participants rather than immediately after registration

How can I register?

• Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/4aD5LMC  or  https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro. Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go directly to support Ukraine.

• Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

• Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.

How can I sponsor a student?

• Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/4aD5LMC  or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro (or 17 GBP or 20 USD or 800 UAH). Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go to support Ukraine!

• Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

• Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.

If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).

You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.

Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!