Kurt Hornik: WiMa Computing Winter Semester 2013

Classes

All classes start at 13:30 and end at 16:00.
Unit Date Topic Materials Assignments
1 2013-10-17 D4.0.022 R as an environment for computing and graphics Transcript Code Problems Chapter 2, read Chapter 3
2 2013-10-24 D4.0.022 Basic programming Transcript Code Snip Problems Chapter 3, read Chapter 4
3 2013-10-31 D4.0.022 LaTeX and Sweave Transcript Code tex bib Problems Chapter 4 numbers 3-5; install LaTeX and Rstudio; read LaTeX intro
4 2013-11-07 D4.0.022 Functions Transcript Code Rnw Problems Chapter 5 numbers 1-5, 7, 8; read Chapters 5-7
5 2013-11-14 TC.5.13 Factors, data frames and lists Transcript Code Snip Problems Chapter 6; read Chapter 9
6 2013-11-21 D4.0.022 More graphics and numerical accuracy Transcript Code Read Chapters 9 and 11
7 2013-12-05 TC.5.13 Root finding and optimization Transcript Code Snip Problems Chapter 9 numbers 1-3, 6, Chapter 10 numbers 3-6, 10, 11, Chapter 12 number 2
8 2013-12-12 TC.5.13 Presentations and Review
9 2013-12-19 TC.5.13 Finals

Assignments

Exercises
All assignments are from the textbook "Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R" used for the course.
When submitting homework assignments by email, please use the subject ‘WiMa Computing Unit n’, where n is the number of the unit.
Note that submissions are due Tuesday midnight. Submit them by email to <Kurt.Hornik@wu.ac.at> and cc all team members.
Chapters in assignments refer to the textbook.

Literature

Owen Jones, Robert Maillardet, and Andrew Robinson: Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4200-6872-6.
Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl: The (Not So) Short Introduction to LATEX2e.

Links

Electronic University Calendar (eVVZ)
Setting up R and LATEX


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