This chapter gets into more details of some aspects of R. This chapter is called “Advanced R Programming ” only because it is additional elements on top of the quick introduction you got in the last chapter. Except, perhaps, for the functional programming toward the end, we will not cover anything that is conceptually more complex that we did in the previous chapter. It is just a few more technical details we will dig into.
I stole the title from Hadley Wickham’s excellent book of the same name (see http://adv-r.had.co.nz ) and most of what I cover here, he does in his book as well. He does cover ...
