Statistical Programming Methods with R
I Preface
Welcome
Objective of the Text
Active Development Disclaimer
Contributing
Rendering Mathematical Formulae
R Code Conventions
Acknowledgements
License
1
The World of Programming
2
R Programming Done Wrong
2.1
Beginners Luck
2.1.1
Checking for Equality vs. Assignment
2.1.2
Missing object
2.1.3
if
vectorization usage
2.1.4
Vector Recycling
2.2
Omitting Symbols
2.2.1
Mismatched curly brackets
{}
, parentheses
()
, or brackets
[]
2.2.2
No Multiplication Symbol
2.2.3
Manual Data Entry
2.2.4
Strings in character values
2.3
Special Values
2.3.1
Handling Missing Value Operations
2.3.2
Finiteness of Values
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Statistical Programming Methods with R
Chapter 1
The World of Programming