Efficient R Programming ― A Practical Guide to Smarter Programming

Become a more productive programmer with Efficient R Programming. Drawing on years of experience teaching R courses, authors Colin Gillespie and Robin Lovelace give practical advice on a range of topics—from optimizing set-up of RStudio to leveraging C++—that make this book a valuable asset for both experienced and novice programmers. It’s suitable for academics, business users, and programmers from a wide range of backgrounds.

• Get practical, tried-and-true advice from longtime R instructors
• Dive into a wide range of topics, including RStudio set-up and leveraging C++, suitable for all skill levels
• Gain insight into RStudio’s functionality to boost code-writing productivity
• Learn the necessary skills for team-based R programming work
• Save time, and energy, debugging code and searching online forums

Colin Gillespie is Senior lecturer (Associate professor) at Newcastle University, UK. He has been running R courses for over five years at a variety of levels, ranging from beginners to advanced programming. During his academic career, he has also been employed as an external consultant at Shell, Burberry, Yorkshire Bank, KPMG, and Tesco Bank. His research interests are high performance statistical computing and Bayesian statistics.

Robin Lovelace is a Research Fellow in the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, which specializes in the handling of large data sets. Robin has five years using R for academic research and three years teaching R at all levels. Robin developed the popular tutorial "Introduction to visualizing spatial data in R" and is working to publish "Spatial microsimulation with R" (CRC Press). Robin has used R on mission-critical contracts, including the creation of a nationally scalable interactive online mapping tool for the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT).