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# Welcome

This is the in-progress book site for __"Advanced R"__. The book is designed primarily for R users who want to improve their programming skills and understanding of the language.  It should also be useful for programmers coming to R from other languages, as it explains some of R's quirks and shows how some parts that seem horrible do have a positive side.

It will eventually be published as a real book in Chapman and Hall's [R series](http://www.crcpress.com/browse/series/crctherser).  The final version of the book is due in June 2014, so it should be available in late 2014. Thanks to the publisher, the wiki will continue to be freely available after the book is published.

## Advanced R

Learn all about how the R language works and how you can use it to solve real problems. The book is broken down into the following chapters (which you can also access from the drop-down menus at the top-right):

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## Package development

Package development now has its own home at <http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/>.