Statistical and Data Sciences 270 - Programming for Data Science in R
Programming Data Science: R
Spring
2026
01
4.00
Jericho Lawson
M W 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Smith College
SDS-270-01-202603
Bass 002
jlawson01@smith.edu
This course is not about data analysis—rather, students learn the R programming language at a deep level. Topics may include data structures, control flow, regular expressions, functions, environments, functional programming, object-oriented programming, debugging, testing, version control, documentation, literate programming, code review and package development. The major goal for the course is to contribute to a viable, collaborative, open-source, publishable R package. Prerequisites: SDS 192 and CSC 110, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 40.
[CE] SDS 192 & (CSC 110 or 111)