title: The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design
author: Norman Matloff
description: <strong>From the Author: Why Use R for Your Statistical Work?</strong>
zlib_text: The Essentials of  
  Data Science 
  Knowledge Discovery Using R
  
  Chapman & Hall/CRC
  The R Series
  John M. Chambers
  Department of Statistics
  Stanford University 
  Stanford, California, USA
  Duncan Temple Lang
  Department of Statistics
  University of California, Davis
  Davis, California, USA
  Torsten Hothorn
  Division of Biostatistics
  University of Zurich
  Switzerland
  Hadley Wickham
  RStudio
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  Aims and Scope
  This book series reflects the recent rapid growth in the development and application 
  of R, the programming language and software environment for statistical computing 
  and graphics. R is now widely used in academic research, education, and industry. 
  It is constantly growing, with new versions of the core software released regularly 
  and more than 10,000 packages available. It is difficult for the documentation to 
  keep pace with the expansion of the software, and this vital book series provides a 
  forum for the publication of books covering many aspects of the developm