Program Overview

Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sydney offers a diverse range of professional development short courses. These courses are designed to enhance professional development, grow technical and people skills, and support career progression.

Course Subjects

The Centre for Continuing Education offers courses in various subjects, including:

• Business and management
  • Business communication
  • Business strategy
  • Business writing
  • Cultural competence and diversity
  • Finance
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Organisational psychology
  • Sales and customer service
• English
• HSC preparation (years 10-12)
  • HSC biology
  • HSC business studies
  • HSC chemistry
  • HSC economics
  • HSC English
  • HSC mathematics
  • HSC physics
  • Year 11 (Revision)
  • Years 10-12 study and essay skills
• Humanities and culture
  • Creative writing
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
• Information technology
  • Adobe
  • AI and machine learning courses
  • Data analysis and analytics
  • Google
  • Microsoft
• Language
  • Arabic
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Marketing
  • Digital marketing
  • Marketing communications
  • Product development
• Project management
  • Agile methodology courses
  • Change management for projects
  • Stakeholder and people management
  • Technical project management skills

R Programming Course: Advanced

The R Programming Course: Advanced is designed for experienced users aiming to level up their data science expertise. This course covers advanced R topics like package development, spatial data, RMarkdown, and package development.

Course Details

• Duration: 1 session, 8 hours total
• Next date: 7 May 2026
• Delivery mode: Online via Zoom
• Cost: A$540.00

Course Information

This course aims to teach advanced R topics, including:

• Regular expressions (regex)
• Spatial data (packages sf, tmap, leaflet)
• Automation through Functionals (packages apply and purr)
• Developing packages in R
• Creating R markdown documents
• Running Python within R
• SQL in R
• Connecting to databases within R/R Studio

Intended Audience

Regular users of R, Python, SQL, SAS, SPSS, or other data science programming languages will find the course most beneficial. Managers and leaders will also find Advanced R advantageous for gaining organisation efficiencies.

Prerequisites

As this is an advanced class, some technical programming experience is required. Students who have completed R Programming Course: Introduction and R Programming Course: Intermediate will be well prepared for Advanced R material.

Delivery Modes

The course is available in two delivery modes:

• Face-to-face, presenter-taught training using your own device
• Online training via the platform Zoom

Location

The course is available in various locations, including:

• Newtown (155)
• Sydney CBD (0)
• Western Sydney (7)

Course Length

The course is available in various lengths, including:

• One-day (124)
• Two-day (37)
• Three-day (3)
• Multi-day (36)

Related Courses

Related courses include:

• From R to Python Course
• Git Course: Introduction
• Power BI Course: Advanced
• Python Programming Course: Level 1B
• R Programming Course: Intermediate
• Tableau Course: Level 1A
• Tableau Course: Level 1B

Organisational Training

The Centre for Continuing Education also offers organisational training and development, designed for workplace needs. For groups of six or more, courses can be delivered to your team with the option to tailor content.