R object-oriented programming : a practical guide to help you learn and understand the programming techniques necessary to exploit the full power R /: a practical guide to help you learn and understand the programming techniques necessary to exploit the full power R. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Practical guide to help you learn and understand the programming techniques necessary to exploit the full power R
• Further Information: Note: Kelly Black.
• Other Names: Black, Kelly
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Data Types; Assignment; The workspace; Discrete data types; Integer; Logical; Character; Factors; Continuous data types; Double; Complex; Special data types; Notes on as and is functions; Summary; Chapter 2: Organizing Data; Basic data structures; Vectors; Lists; Data frames; Tables; Matrices and arrays; Censoring data; Appending rows and columns; Operations on data structures; The apply commands; apply; lapply and sapply; tapply; mapply; Summary. Chapter 3: Saving Data and Printing ResultsFile and directory information; Entering data; Entering data from the command line; Reading tables from files; CSV files; Fixed width files; Printing results and saving data; Saving a workspace; The cat command; The print, format, and paste commands; Primitive input/output; Network options; Opening a socket; Basic socket operations; Summary; Chapter 4: Calculating Probabilities and Random Numbers; Overview; Distribution functions; Cumulative distribution functions; Inverse cumulative distribution functions; Generating pseudorandom numbers; Sampling. Break and next statementsFunctions; Defining a function; Arguments to functions; Scope; Executing scripts; Summary; Chapter 8: S3 Classes; Defining classes and methods; Defining objects and inheritance; Encapsulation; A final note; Summary; Chapter 9: S4 Classes; Introducing the Ant class; Defining an S4 class; Defining methods for an S4 class; Defining new methods; Polymorphism; Extending the existing methods; Inheritance; Miscellaneous notes; Summary; Chapter 10: Case Study -- Course Grades; Overview; The Course class; The definition of the Course class ; Reading Grades from a file. The assignment classesThe NumericGrade class; The LetterGrade class; Example -- reading grades from a file; Defining indexing operations; Redefining existing functions; Redefining arithmetic operations; Summary; Chapter 11: Case Study -- Simulation; The simulation classes; The Monte-Carlo class; Examples; Summary; Appendix: Package Management; Index.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.1092356; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Object Oriented; R (Computer program language); Application software -- Development; Mathematical statistics -- Data processing; Computer science; Database management; Object-oriented programming (Computer science); COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Open Source; COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General; COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- Tools; Application software -- Development; Mathematical statistics -- Data processing; R (Computer program language); COMPUTERS -- Programming -- General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783986699; 1783986697
• Related ISBNs: 1783986697; 1783986689; 9781783986682
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed Nov. 13, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.