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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
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2.4 Language basics
Programming in R is carried out, primarily, by manipulating and modifying
data structures. These dierent transformations and calculations are carried
out using functions and operators. In R, virtually every operation is a function
call and though we separate our discussion into operators and function calls,
the distinction is not strong and the two concepts are very similar. The R
evaluator and many functions are written in C but most R functions are
written in R itself.
The code for functions can be viewed, and in most cases modified, ...
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ISBN: 9781420063677