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# Welcome {-}

This is the website for work-in-progress 2nd edition of __"[Advanced R](http://amzn.com/1466586966?tag=devtools-20)"__, a book in Chapman & Hall's R Series. 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.

This edition is a work in progress. If you're looking for the electronic version of the 1st edition, you can find it online at <http://adv-r.had.co.nz/>.

<img src="cover.png" width="250" height="366" alt="Cover image" />

## Other books {-}

You may also be interested in:

* __"[R for Data Science](http://r4ds.had.co.nz/)"__ which introduces you to R 
  as a tool for doing data science, focussing on a consistent
  set of packages known as the tidyverse.

* __"[R Packages](http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/)"__ which teaches you 
  how to make the most of R's fantastic package system.