Advanced R Solutions
About this ebook
Features:
- When R creates copies, and how it affects memory usage and code performance
- Everything you could ever want to know about functions
- The differences between calling and exiting handlers
- How to employ functional programming to solve modular tasks
- The motivation, mechanics, usage, and limitations of R's highly pragmatic S3 OO system
- The R6 OO system, which is more like OO programming in other languages
- The rules that R uses to parse and evaluate expressions
- How to use metaprogramming to generate HTML or LaTeX with elegant R code
- How to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
About the author
Malte Grosser is a business mathematician from Hamburg, who has been programming in R regularly since the beginning of his career. He is currently finishing his PhD on machine learning for stroke outcome prediction and develops solutions in business as a data scientist.
Henning Bumann is a psychologist and statistician who enjoys making sense of data and is motivated to build data-driven solutions that are beautiful and meaningful. He prefers free programming tools to support effective and transparent collaboration.
Hadley Wickham 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.
