Preface

R is a high-level statistical language and is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical applications. The objective of this book is to show the readers how to work with different programming aspects of R. Emerging R developers and data scientists may have very good programming knowledge but their understanding of the R syntax and semantics could be limited. This book will be a platform to develop practical solutions to real-world problems in a scalable fashion and with very good understanding of R. You will work with various versions of R libraries that are essential for scalable data science solutions. You will learn to work with I/O issues when working with the relatively larger datasets. By the end of this book, you will also learn how to work with databases from within R.