1Introduction
The popularity of R continues to grow, and we think it is likely many readers have experience working with R. In particular, the following are assumed:
Readers are familiar with reading external data and package management as well as the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)1.
Readers have knowledge of common object types including lists, matrices, data frames, along with their helper functions, e.g., length, dim, [].
Readers have experience with R statistical functionality such as mean, sd as well as important base R functions such as c, rep, seq, sample.
However, we do present a brief overview of some of these topics. Experience with the dpqr functions in R would also be helpful.2
This first chapter, where we provide a short ...
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