{"product_id":"9780815384571-advanced-r-second-edition","title":"Advanced R, Second Edition","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvanced R presents useful tools and techniques for attacking many types of R programming problems, helping you avoid mistakes and dead ends. With more than ten years of experience programming in R, the author illustrates the elegance, beauty, and flexibility at the heart of R. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvanced R\u003c\/b\u003e helps you understand how R works at a fundamental level. It is designed for R programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language, and programmers experienced in other languages who want to understand what makes R different and special. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will teach you the foundations of R; three fundamental programming paradigms (functional, object-oriented, and metaprogramming); and powerful techniques for debugging and optimising\u003cbr\u003eyour code.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy reading this book, you will learn: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe difference between an object and its name, and why the distinction is important\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe important vector data structures, how they fit together, and how you can pull them apart using subsetting \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe fine details of functions and environments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe condition system, which powers messages, warnings, and errors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe powerful functional programming paradigm, which can replace many for loops\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe three most important OO systems: S3, S4, and R6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe tidy eval toolkit for metaprogramming, which allows you to manipulate code and control evaluation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEffective debugging techniques that you can deploy, regardless of how your code is run\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to find and remove performance bottlenecks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second edition is a comprehensive update: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew foundational chapters: \"Names and values,\" \"Control flow,\" and \"Conditions\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecomprehensive coverage of object oriented programming with chapters on S3, S4, R6, and how to choose between them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuch deeper coverage of metaprogramming, including the new tidy evaluation framework\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003euse of new package like rlang (http:\/\/rlang.r-lib.org), which provides a clean interface to low-level operations, and purr (http:\/\/purrr.tidyverse.org\/) for functional programming\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse of color in code chunks and figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHadley Wickham\u003c\/b\u003e is Chief Scientist at RStudio, an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and the University of Auckland, and a member of the R Foundation. He is the lead developer of the tidyverse, a collection of R packages, including ggplot2 and dplyr, designed to support data science. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eR for Data Science\u003c\/i\u003e (with Garrett Grolemund), \u003ci\u003eR Packages\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944022650977,"sku":"9780815384571","price":70.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_6787008_jpg.jpg?v=1709129380","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780815384571-advanced-r-second-edition","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}