The Art of R Programming
A guided tour of software development with R, from basic types and data structures to advanced topics like closures, recursion, and anonymous functions. No statistical knowledge is required.
Tag(s): R Statistics
Publication date: 01 Sep 2009
ISBN-10: 1593273843
ISBN-13: 8582592222227
Paperback: 193 pages
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The Art of R Programming
Norman Matloff wrote:This book is for those who wish to write code in R, as opposed to those who use R mainly for a sequence of separate, discrete statistical operations, plotting a histogram here, performing a regression analysis there. The reader's level of programming background may range from professional to novice to "took a programming course in college," but the key is that the reader wishes to write R code. Typical examples of our intended audience might be:
• Analysts employed by, say, a hospital or government agency, who produce statistical reports on a regular basis, and need to develop production programs for this purpose.
• Academic researchers developing statistical methodology that is either new or combines existing methods into an integrated procedure that needs to be codified for usage by the general research community.
• Specialists in marketing, litigation support, journalism, publishing and so on who need to develop sophisticated graphical presentations of data.
• Professional programmers who have been working in other languages, but whose employers have now assigned them to projects involving statistical analysis.
• Students in statistical computing courses.
About The Author(s)
Dr. Norm Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, and was formerly a professor of statistics at that university. He is a former database software developer in Silicon Valley, and has been a statistical consultant for firms such as the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan. He was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, and has a PhD in pure mathematics from UCLA, specializing in probability/functional analysis and statistics.
Dr. Norm Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, and was formerly a professor of statistics at that university. He is a former database software developer in Silicon Valley, and has been a statistical consultant for firms such as the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan. He was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, and has a PhD in pure mathematics from UCLA, specializing in probability/functional analysis and statistics.