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Learning R Programming

You're reading from  Learning R Programming

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889776
Pages 582 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kun Ren Kun Ren
Profile icon Kun Ren

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Learning R Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Quick Start 2. Basic Objects 3. Managing Your Workspace 4. Basic Expressions 5. Working with Basic Objects 6. Working with Strings 7. Working with Data 8. Inside R 9. Metaprogramming 10. Object-Oriented Programming 11. Working with Databases 12. Data Manipulation 13. High-Performance Computing 14. Web Scraping 15. Boosting Productivity

Introducing object-oriented programming


If you are a developer from programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, C#, you should feel familiar with the object-oriented style of coding. However, if you are not familiar with any other object-oriented programming languages, you will probably be puzzled by this term, as it sounds a bit abstract. However, don't worry; this is much easier to understand than it looks if we think about the core of programming.

When we talk about programming, we are actually talking about using programming tools to solve problems. Before solving the problem, we need to model the problem first. Traditionally, we usually figured out an algorithm that takes several steps to solve a numeric computing problem. Then, we wrote some procedural code to implement the algorithm. For example, most statistical algorithms are implemented in a procedural style, that is, by transforming the input into the output according to the theory, step by step.

However, many problems are...

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