An Essential Reference for Intermediate & Advanced R Programmers Advanced R presents useful tools & techniques for attacking many types of R programming problems helping you avoid mistakes & dead ends With more than ten years of experience programming in R the author illustrates the elegance beauty & flexibility at the heart of R The book develops the necessary skills to produce quality code that can be used in a variety of circumstances You will learn The fundamentals of R including standard data types & functions Functional programming as a useful framework for solving wide classes of problems The positives & negatives of metaprogramming How to write fast memory-efficient code This book not only helps current R users become R programmers but also shows existing programmers what's special about R Intermediate R programmers can dive deeper into R & learn new strategies for solving diverse problems while programmers from other languages can learn the details of R & understand why R works the way it does