Advanced R Solutions

*When R creates copies, and how it affects memory usage and code performance *Everything you could ever want to know about functions *The differences between calling and exiting handlers *How to employ functional programming to solve modular tasks *The motivation, mechanics, usage, and limitations of R’s highly pragmatic S3 OO system *The R6 OO system, which is more like OO programming in other languages *The rules that R uses to parse and evaluate expressions *How to use metaprogramming to generate HTML or LaTeX with elegant R code *How to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks