John M Chambers

Gebundenes Buch

Extending R

Beschreibung

Extending R covers key concepts and techniques in R to support analysis and research projects. It provides programming guidance for projects of all scales, and introduces new, valuable techniques that extend R. and incorporates a new structure for interfaces applicable to a variety of languages.

Autor

John M. Chambers is a consulting professor in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. He previously worked at Bell Labs for 40 years, where he contributed to major research and management in statistical computing and related fields. He was the first statistician to be named a Bell Labs Fellow. Chambers is best known for the creation and extension of the S software, the predecessor to today's very popular R. He has continued to contribute essential new directions to R. In 1999, he was honored with the ACM Software System Award, which noted that "S has forever altered the way people analyze, visualize, and manipulate data." He is a board member of the R Foundation and the R Consortium; a fellow of the ASA, the IMS, and the AAAS; and an elected member of the ISI. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including the first comprehensive book on computational methods for statistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 182mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9781138469273
• ISBN-10: 1138469270
• Artikelnr.: 49568276