Advanced R Programming, Second Edition

This book helps you understand how R works at a fundamental level. It is designed for R programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language, and programmers experienced in other languages who want to understand what makes R different and special.

It will teach you the foundations of R; three fundamental programming paradigms (functional, object-oriented, and metaprogramming); and powerful techniques for debugging and optimising your code.

The second edition is a comprehensive update:

New foundational chapters: "Names and values," "Control flow," and "Conditions"comprehensive coverage of object oriented programming with chapters on S3, S4, R6, and how to choose between themMuch deeper coverage of metaprogramming, including the new tidy evaluation frameworkuse of new package like rlang (rlang.r-lib.org), which provides a clean interface to low-level operations, and purr (purrr.tidyverse.org/) for functional programmingUse of color in code chunks and figures