R6ModellingCourse2023

A repository for an experimental course on object-oriented disease modelling using R6 (and maybe C++)

The current plan for topics to cover is:

1. Wednesday 17th May (90 mins + beers)

• When should we create an R package?
• How should we create an R package?
• Tour of an R package structure
• Debugging an R package
• Basics of functions and S3 classes
• Basics of git
• Introduction to unit tests and R CMD check

2. Wednesday 31st May (90 mins)

• Programming styles: procedural vs functional vs object oriented
• Introduction to R6
• Good programming practice: encapsulation, version control, testing, vignettes, help files
• Disease modelling using R6 (discrete-time mechanistic models)

3. Wednesday 14th June (90 mins + beers)

• R6, inheritance and importing other packages
• Object-oriented disease modelling using BLOFELD
• Modularising populations, spread mechanisms, control mechanisms, and book-keeping functions
• TBC: iGraph, sf

4. Wednesday 28th June (90 mins)

• TBC: Rcpp, template meta-programming

Then we will have a summer break, and possibly (probably?) continue in September/October

All meetings will be hybrid - contact Matt for the Zoom link if you don't already have it.