Mastering Software Development in R
Last updated on 2017-08-15
About the Book
The world of R has evolved substantially since its early days as a statistical computing language. As the field of data science has rocketed to the forefront of all areas of scientific and industry work, R has become the centerpiece language for doing data science. Through the contributions of a vibrant and highly active developer community, R has evolved to the point where it can be considered a software development language for developing robust, modular, and highly reusable software tools.
We begin by providing a rigorous introduction to the R language, and quickly move on to more advanced aspects like functional programming, object-oriented programming, building R packages, and software maintainence. We also discuss the development of custom visualization tools through packages like ggplot2 and ggmap.
This book is about using R to develop the tools for doing data science. Whether you are on a data science team or working by yourself as part of a community of developers or data scientists, you will find this book useful as a reference for the software development process in R. Throughout, we focus on the aspects of the R language that are relevant to developing code and tools that will be used by others.
Printed copies of the book are available from Lulu (coming soon).
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Setup
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1. The R Programming Environment
- 1.1 Crash Course on R Syntax
- 1.2 The Importance of Tidy Data
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1.3 Reading Tabular Data with the
readrPackage - 1.4 Reading Web-Based Data
- 1.5 Basic Data Manipulation
- 1.6 Working with Dates, Times, Time Zones
- 1.7 Text Processing and Regular Expressions
- 1.8 The Role of Physical Memory
- 1.9 Working with Large Datasets
- 1.10 Diagnosing Problems
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2. Advanced R Programming
- 2.1 Control Structures
- 2.2 Functions
- 2.3 Functional Programming
- 2.4 Expressions & Environments
- 2.5 Error Handling and Generation
- 2.6 Debugging
- 2.7 Profiling and Benchmarking
- 2.8 Non-standard Evaluation
- 2.9 Object Oriented Programming
- 2.10 Gaining Your ‘tidyverse’ Citizenship
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3. Building R Packages
- 3.1 Before You Start
- 3.2 R Packages
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3.3 The
devtoolsPackage - 3.4 Documentation
- 3.5 Data Within a Package
- 3.6 Software Testing Framework for R Packages
- 3.7 Passing CRAN checks
- 3.8 Open Source Licensing
- 3.9 Version Control and GitHub
- 3.10 Software Design and Philosophy
- 3.11 Continuous Integration
- 3.12 Cross Platform Development
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4. Building Data Visualization Tools
- 4.1 Basic Plotting With ggplot2
- 4.2 Customizing ggplot2 Plots
- 4.3 Mapping
- 4.4 htmlWidgets
- 4.5 The grid Package
- 4.6 Building a New Theme
- 4.7 Building New Graphical Elements
- About the Authors
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This package provides in convenient form the code executed in the book as well as datasets needed to reproduce the examples. In addition, we include a complete HTML version of the book for browsing locally on your computer.
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About the Authors
Roger D. Peng is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where his research focuses on the development of statistical methods for addressing environmental health problems. He is also a co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization, the Simply Statistics blog where he writes about statistics for the general public, the Not So Standard Deviations podcast with Hilary Parker, and The Effort Report podcast with Elizabeth Matsui. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and is the recipient of the 2016 Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association, which honors a statistician who has made outstanding contributions to public health. Roger can be found on Twitter and GitHub at @rdpeng.
Sean Kross is a software developer in the department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Sean's professional interests range between metagenomics, cybersecurity, and human-computer interaction. He is also the lead developer of the swirl, a software package designed to teach programming, statistics, and data science in an authentic programming environment. You can find Sean on Twitter and GitHub at @seankross.
Brooke Anderson is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University in the Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, as well as a Faculty Associate in the Department of Statistics. She is also a member of the university’s Partnership of Air Quality, Climate, and Health and is a member of the editorial boards of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Perspectives. Previously, she completed a postdoctoral appointment in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public and a PhD in Engineering at Yale University. Her research focuses on the health risks associated with climate-related exposures, including heat waves and air pollution, for which she has conducted several national-level studies. As part of her research, she has also published a number of open source R software packages to facilitate environmental epidemiologic research.
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