Welcome

This is the companion website for “Advanced R”, a book in Chapman & Hall’s R Series. The book is designed primarily for R users who want to improve their programming skills and understanding of the language. It should also be useful for programmers coming to R from other languages, as it explains some of R’s quirks and shows how some parts that seem horrible do have a positive side.

• Introduction
• Foundations
• Data structures
• Subsetting
• Vocabulary
• Style
• Functions
• OO field guide
• Environments
• Exceptions and debugging
• Functional programming
• Functional programming
• Functionals
• Function operators
• Metaprogramming
• Non-standard evaluation
• Expressions
• Domain specific languages
• Performant code
• Performance
• Profiling
• Memory
• Rcpp
• R’s C interface

(You may also be interested in “R Packages”, a similar book teaching you how to make the most of R’s fantastic package system.)