Advanced R 4 Data Programming and the Cloud: Using PostgreSQL, AWS, and Shiny

© Matt Wiley and Joshua F. Wiley 2020

M. Wiley, J. F. WileyAdvanced R 4 Data Programming and the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5973-3_1

1. Programming Basics

Matt Wiley¹  and Joshua F. Wiley²

(1)

Victoria College, Victoria, TX, USA

(2)

Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

 

As with most languages, becoming a power user requires extra understanding of the underlying structure or rules. Data science through R is powerful, and this chapter discusses such programming basics including objects, operators, and functions.

Before we dig too deeply into R, some general principles to follow may well be in order. First, experimentation is good. It is much more powerful to learn hands-on than it is simply to read. Download the source files that come ...