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<metacontent="Deep R Programming is comprehensive course on one of the most popular languages for data science (statistical computing, graphics, machine learning, data wrangling and analytics). It introduces the base language in-depth. It is aimed at ambitious students, professionals, and researchers who would like to become independent users of this powerful environment. This textbook is a non-profit project. Its online and PDF versions are freely available at https://deepr.gagolewski.com/." name="citation_abstract" />
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<metacontent="Deep R Programming is a comprehensive and in-depth introductory course on one of the most popular languages for data science. It equips ambitious students, professionals, and researchers with the knowledge and skills to become independent users of this potent environment so that they can tackle any problem related to data wrangling and analytics, numerical computing, statistics, and machine learning. This textbook is a non-profit project. Its online and PDF versions are freely available at https://deepr.gagolewski.com/." name="citation_abstract" />
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<metacontent="Deep R Programming is comprehensive course on one of the most popular languages for data science (statistical computing, graphics, machine learning, data wrangling and analytics). It introduces the base language in-depth. It is aimed at ambitious students, professionals, and researchers who would like to become independent users of this powerful environment. This textbook is a non-profit project. Its online and PDF versions are freely available at https://deepr.gagolewski.com/." name="twitter:description" />
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<metacontent="Deep R Programming is comprehensive course on one of the most popular languages for data science (statistical computing, graphics, machine learning, data wrangling and analytics). It introduces the base language in-depth. It is aimed at ambitious students, professionals, and researchers who would like to become independent users of this powerful environment. This textbook is a non-profit project. Its online and PDF versions are freely available at https://deepr.gagolewski.com/." name="og:description" />
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<metacontent="Deep R Programming is a comprehensive and in-depth introductory course on one of the most popular languages for data science. It equips ambitious students, professionals, and researchers with the knowledge and skills to become independent users of this potent environment so that they can tackle any problem related to data wrangling and analytics, numerical computing, statistics, and machine learning. This textbook is a non-profit project. Its online and PDF versions are freely available at https://deepr.gagolewski.com/." name="twitter:description" />
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<metacontent="Deep R Programming is a comprehensive and in-depth introductory course on one of the most popular languages for data science. It equips ambitious students, professionals, and researchers with the knowledge and skills to become independent users of this potent environment so that they can tackle any problem related to data wrangling and analytics, numerical computing, statistics, and machine learning. This textbook is a non-profit project. Its online and PDF versions are freely available at https://deepr.gagolewski.com/." name="og:description" />
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will be much easier later. After all, R is not the only
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notable environment out there.</p>
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<p>Anyway, enough preaching. This graduate<aclass="footnote-reference brackets" href="#footwut" id="id11" role="doc-noteref"><spanclass="fn-bracket">[</span>4<spanclass="fn-bracket">]</span></a>-level textbook is for
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independent readers who:</p>
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readers who:</p>
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<li><p>do not mind a slightly steeper learning curve
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at the beginning,</p></li>
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<li><p>would like to experience the <em>joy</em> of solving problems by programming,</p></li>
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<li><p>want to become <em>independent</em> users of the R environment,</p></li>
<li><p>would like to experience the joy of solving problems by programming,</p></li>
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<li><p>do not mind a slightly steeper learning curve at the beginning,</p></li>
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<li><p>do not want to be made obsolete by artificial “intelligence”
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in the future.</p></li>
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<p>Some will benefit from it as a first introduction to R (yet,
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<p>Some readers will benefit from its being their first introduction to R (yet,
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without all the pampering). For others<aclass="footnote-reference brackets" href="#footothers" id="id13" role="doc-noteref"><spanclass="fn-bracket">[</span>6<spanclass="fn-bracket">]</span></a>, this will be a fine
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course from intermediate to advanced (do not skip the first
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chapters, though).</p>
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<p>Either way, do not forget to solve <em>all</em> the prescribed exercises.</p>
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<p>Good luck.</p>
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<p>Either way, we should not forget to solve <em>all</em> the prescribed exercises.</p>
<h2>Classification of R data types and book structure<aclass="headerlink" href="#classification-of-r-data-types-and-book-structure" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>
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<li><p>Some more advanced material is discussed in the third part.
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<li><p>More advanced material is discussed in the third part.
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For most readers, it should be of theoretical interest only.
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However, it can help gain a complete understanding
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of and control over our environment.
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<em>IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems</em>, and <em>Journal of Informetrics</em>.</p>
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<p>In my “spare” time, I write books for my students: check out my
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<aclass="reference external" href="https://datawranglingpy.gagolewski.com/"><em>Minimalist Data Wrangling with Python</em></a><spanid="id15">[<aclass="reference internal" href="999-bibliography.html#id3" title="Gagolewski, M. (2022). Minimalist Data Wrangling with Python. Zenodo. URL: https://datawranglingpy.gagolewski.com/, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6451068.">26</a>]</span>.
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I also develop open-source (libre) data analysis software,
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I also develop open-source data analysis software,
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such as <aclass="reference external" href="https://stringi.gagolewski.com/"><strongclass="program">stringi</strong></a>
<p>See <spanid="id18">[<aclass="reference internal" href="999-bibliography.html#id20" title="Chambers, J.M. (2020). S, R, and data science. The R Journal, 12(1):462–476. DOI: 10.32614/RJ-2020-028.">12</a>, <aclass="reference internal" href="999-bibliography.html#id18" title="Ihaka, R. and Gentleman, R. (1996). R: A language for data analysis and graphics. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 5(3):299–314. URL: https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/R-paper.pdf, DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1996.10474713.">37</a>]</span> for some historical
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<p>See <spanid="id18">[<aclass="reference internal" href="999-bibliography.html#id20" title="Chambers, J.M. (2020). S, R, and data science. The R Journal, 12(1):462–476. DOI: 10.32614/RJ-2020-028.">12</a>, <aclass="reference internal" href="999-bibliography.html#id18" title="Ihaka, R. and Gentleman, R. (1996). R: A language for data analysis and graphics. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 5(3):299–314. URL: https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/R-paper.pdf, DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1996.10474713.">37</a>]</span> for historical
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notes. R version 0.49 released in April 1997 (the first whose
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source code is available on CRAN;
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see <aclass="reference external" href="https://cloud.r-project.org/src/base/R-0">https://cloud.r-project.org/src/base/R-0</a>),
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