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R Programming for Bioinformatics
book

R Programming for Bioinformatics

by Robert Gentleman
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
10h 53m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from R Programming for Bioinformatics
Chapter 2
R Language Fundamentals
2.1 Introduction
In this chapter we introduce the basic language data types and discuss
their capabilities and structures. Then topics such as flow-control, iteration,
subsetting and exception handling will be presented. R directly supports two
dierent object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigms, which are discussed
in detail in Chapter 3. Many operations in R are vectorized, and understand-
ing and using vectorization is an essential component of becoming a proficient
programmer.
The R language was primarily designed as a language for data manipula-
tion, modeling and visualization, and many of the data structures reflect ...
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ISBN: 9781420063677