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title: "**PRAISE FOR** *THE ART OF R PROGRAMMING*"
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# **PRAISE FOR** *THE ART OF R PROGRAMMING*

"The Art of R Programming" by Norman Matloff is a comprehensive guide designed to equip readers with the skills to become competent R programmers, particularly for statistical software design and data analysis. Praised for its in-depth coverage, the book caters to both programming-experienced individuals and beginners, detailing R's core data structures, programming constructs, object-oriented principles, graphics, debugging, performance optimization, and interfacing with other languages for a wide range of statistical and scientific applications.

This page is free — overview and chapter list only.
Full book: $2.99 USDC · Per chapter: $0.25 USDC
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## Chapters

1. [A Tour Of Statistical Software Design](/library/theartofrprogramming/01-a-tour-of-statistical-software-design/) (Free teaser)
1. [Why Use R For Your Statistical Work](/library/theartofrprogramming/02-why-use-r-for-your-statistical-work/) ($0.25)
1. [Whom Is This Book For](/library/theartofrprogramming/03-whom-is-this-book-for/) ($0.25)
1. [11 How To Run R](/library/theartofrprogramming/04-11-how-to-run-r/) ($0.25)
1. [12 A First R Session](/library/theartofrprogramming/05-12-a-first-r-session/) ($0.25)
1. [13 Introduction To Functions](/library/theartofrprogramming/06-13-introduction-to-functions/) ($0.25)
1. [14 Preview Of Some Important R Data Structures](/library/theartofrprogramming/07-14-preview-of-some-important-r-data-structures/) ($0.25)
1. [15 Extended Example Regression Analysis Of Exam Grades](/library/theartofrprogramming/08-15-extended-example-regression-analysis-of-exam-grades/) ($0.25)
1. [16 Startup And Shutdown](/library/theartofrprogramming/09-16-startup-and-shutdown/) ($0.25)
1. [17 Getting Help](/library/theartofrprogramming/10-17-getting-help/) ($0.25)
1. [21 Scalars Vectors Arrays And Matrices](/library/theartofrprogramming/11-21-scalars-vectors-arrays-and-matrices/) ($0.25)
1. [22 Declarations](/library/theartofrprogramming/12-22-declarations/) ($0.25)
1. [24 Common Vector Operations](/library/theartofrprogramming/13-24-common-vector-operations/) ($0.25)
1. [25 Using All And Any](/library/theartofrprogramming/14-25-using-all-and-any/) ($0.25)
1. [26 Vectorized Operations](/library/theartofrprogramming/15-26-vectorized-operations/) ($0.25)
1. [27 Na And Null Values](/library/theartofrprogramming/16-27-na-and-null-values/) ($0.25)
1. [28 Filtering](/library/theartofrprogramming/17-28-filtering/) ($0.25)
1. [29 A Vectorized If Then Else The Ifelse Function](/library/theartofrprogramming/18-29-a-vectorized-if-then-else-the-ifelse-function/) ($0.25)
1. [210 Testing Vector Equality](/library/theartofrprogramming/19-210-testing-vector-equality/) ($0.25)
1. [31 Creating Matrices](/library/theartofrprogramming/20-31-creating-matrices/) ($0.25)
1. [32 General Matrix Operations](/library/theartofrprogramming/21-32-general-matrix-operations/) ($0.25)
1. [33 Applying Functions To Matrix Rows And Columns](/library/theartofrprogramming/22-33-applying-functions-to-matrix-rows-and-columns/) ($0.25)
1. [34 Adding And Deleting Matrix Rows And Columns](/library/theartofrprogramming/23-34-adding-and-deleting-matrix-rows-and-columns/) ($0.25)
1. [36 Avoiding Unintended Dimension Reduction](/library/theartofrprogramming/24-36-avoiding-unintended-dimension-reduction/) ($0.25)
1. [38 Higher Dimensional Arrays](/library/theartofrprogramming/25-38-higher-dimensional-arrays/) ($0.25)
1. [42 General List Operations](/library/theartofrprogramming/26-42-general-list-operations/) ($0.25)
1. [43 Accessing List Components And Values](/library/theartofrprogramming/27-43-accessing-list-components-and-values/) ($0.25)
1. [44 Applying Functions To Lists](/library/theartofrprogramming/28-44-applying-functions-to-lists/) ($0.25)
1. [45 Recursive Lists](/library/theartofrprogramming/29-45-recursive-lists/) ($0.25)
1. [51 Creating Data Frames](/library/theartofrprogramming/30-51-creating-data-frames/) ($0.25)
1. [52 Other Matrix Like Operations](/library/theartofrprogramming/31-52-other-matrix-like-operations/) ($0.25)
1. [53 Merging Data Frames](/library/theartofrprogramming/32-53-merging-data-frames/) ($0.25)
1. [54 Applying Functions To Data Frames](/library/theartofrprogramming/33-54-applying-functions-to-data-frames/) ($0.25)
1. [62 Common Functions Used With Factors](/library/theartofrprogramming/34-62-common-functions-used-with-factors/) ($0.25)
1. [63 Working With Tables](/library/theartofrprogramming/35-63-working-with-tables/) ($0.25)
1. [64 Other Factor And Table Related Functions](/library/theartofrprogramming/36-64-other-factor-and-table-related-functions/) ($0.25)
1. [71 Control Statements](/library/theartofrprogramming/37-71-control-statements/) ($0.25)
1. [72 Arithmetic And Boolean Operators And Values](/library/theartofrprogramming/38-72-arithmetic-and-boolean-operators-and-values/) ($0.25)
1. [74 Return Values](/library/theartofrprogramming/39-74-return-values/) ($0.25)
1. [75 Functions Are Objects](/library/theartofrprogramming/40-75-functions-are-objects/) ($0.25)
1. [76 Environment And Scope Issues](/library/theartofrprogramming/41-76-environment-and-scope-issues/) ($0.25)
1. [77 No Pointers In R](/library/theartofrprogramming/42-77-no-pointers-in-r/) ($0.25)
1. [78 Writing Upstairs](/library/theartofrprogramming/43-78-writing-upstairs/) ($0.25)
1. [791 A Quicksort Implementation](/library/theartofrprogramming/44-791-a-quicksort-implementation/) ($0.25)
1. [792 Extended Example A Binary Search Tree](/library/theartofrprogramming/45-792-extended-example-a-binary-search-tree/) ($0.25)
1. [7102 Extended Example A Self Bookkeeping Vector Class](/library/theartofrprogramming/46-7102-extended-example-a-self-bookkeeping-vector-class/) ($0.25)
1. [7112 The Edit Function](/library/theartofrprogramming/47-7112-the-edit-function/) ($0.25)
1. [811 Extended Example Calculating A Probability](/library/theartofrprogramming/48-811-extended-example-calculating-a-probability/) ($0.25)
1. [813 Minima And Maxima](/library/theartofrprogramming/49-813-minima-and-maxima/) ($0.25)
1. [814 Calculus](/library/theartofrprogramming/50-814-calculus/) ($0.25)
1. [841 Extended Example Vector Cross Product](/library/theartofrprogramming/51-841-extended-example-vector-cross-product/) ($0.25)
1. [Extended Example Finding Stationary Distributions Of Markov](/library/theartofrprogramming/52-extended-example-finding-stationary-distributions-of-markov/) ($0.25)
1. [861 Built In Random Variate Generators](/library/theartofrprogramming/53-861-built-in-random-variate-generators/) ($0.25)
1. [863 Extended Example A Combinatorial Simulation](/library/theartofrprogramming/54-863-extended-example-a-combinatorial-simulation/) ($0.25)
1. [912 Example Oop In The Lm Linear Model Function](/library/theartofrprogramming/55-912-example-oop-in-the-lm-linear-model-function/) ($0.25)
1. [913 Finding The Implementations Of Generic Methods](/library/theartofrprogramming/56-913-finding-the-implementations-of-generic-methods/) ($0.25)
1. [914 Writing S3 Classes](/library/theartofrprogramming/57-914-writing-s3-classes/) ($0.25)
1. [916 Extended Example A Class For Storing Upper Triangular Ma](/library/theartofrprogramming/58-916-extended-example-a-class-for-storing-upper-triangular-ma/) ($0.25)
1. [113 Use Of String Utilities In The Edtdbg Debugging Tool](/library/theartofrprogramming/59-113-use-of-string-utilities-in-the-edtdbg-debugging-tool/) ($0.25)
1. [121 Creating Graphs](/library/theartofrprogramming/60-121-creating-graphs/) ($0.25)
1. [122 Customizing Graphs](/library/theartofrprogramming/61-122-customizing-graphs/) ($0.25)
1. [123 Saving Graphs To Files](/library/theartofrprogramming/62-123-saving-graphs-to-files/) ($0.25)
1. [124 Creating Three Dimensional Plots](/library/theartofrprogramming/63-124-creating-three-dimensional-plots/) ($0.25)
1. [131 Fundamental Principles Of Debugging](/library/theartofrprogramming/64-131-fundamental-principles-of-debugging/) ($0.25)
1. [133 Using R Debugging Facilities](/library/theartofrprogramming/65-133-using-r-debugging-facilities/) ($0.25)
1. [134 Moving Up In The World More Convenient Debugging Tools](/library/theartofrprogramming/66-134-moving-up-in-the-world-more-convenient-debugging-tools/) ($0.25)
1. [137 Running Gdb On R Itself](/library/theartofrprogramming/67-137-running-gdb-on-r-itself/) ($0.25)
1. [142 The Dreaded For Loop](/library/theartofrprogramming/68-142-the-dreaded-for-loop/) ($0.25)
1. [143 Functional Programming And Memory Issues](/library/theartofrprogramming/69-143-functional-programming-and-memory-issues/) ($0.25)
1. [144 Using Rprof To Find Slow Spots In Your Code](/library/theartofrprogramming/70-144-using-rprof-to-find-slow-spots-in-your-code/) ($0.25)
1. [146 Oh No The Data Doesnt Fit Into Memory](/library/theartofrprogramming/71-146-oh-no-the-data-doesnt-fit-into-memory/) ($0.25)
1. [151 Writing Cc Functions To Be Called From R](/library/theartofrprogramming/72-151-writing-cc-functions-to-be-called-from-r/) ($0.25)
1. [152 Using R From Python](/library/theartofrprogramming/73-152-using-r-from-python/) ($0.25)
1. [162 Introducing The Snow Package](/library/theartofrprogramming/74-162-introducing-the-snow-package/) ($0.25)
1. [163 Resorting To C](/library/theartofrprogramming/75-163-resorting-to-c/) ($0.25)
1. [164 General Performance Considerations](/library/theartofrprogramming/76-164-general-performance-considerations/) ($0.25)
1. [165 Debugging Parallel R Code](/library/theartofrprogramming/77-165-debugging-parallel-r-code/) ($0.25)
1. [A3 Installing From Source](/library/theartofrprogramming/78-a3-installing-from-source/) ($0.25)
1. [B3 Downloading A Package From The Web](/library/theartofrprogramming/79-b3-downloading-a-package-from-the-web/) ($0.25)
1. [B4 Listing The Functions In A Package](/library/theartofrprogramming/80-b4-listing-the-functions-in-a-package/) ($0.25)