R Object-oriented Programming -- Table of Contents -- R Object-oriented Programming -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Copyright violations -- Questions -- 1. Data Types -- Assignment -- The workspace -- Discrete data types -- Integer -- Logical -- Character -- Factors -- Continuous data types -- Double -- Complex -- Special data types -- Notes on the as and is functions -- Summary -- 2. Organizing Data -- Basic data structures -- Vectors -- Lists -- Data frames -- Tables -- Matrices and arrays -- Censoring data -- Appending rows and columns -- Operations on data structures -- The apply commands -- apply -- lapply and sapply -- tapply -- mapply -- Summary -- 3. Saving Data and Printing Results -- File and directory information -- Entering data -- Entering data from the command line -- Reading tables from files -- CSV files -- Fixed-width files -- Printing results and saving data -- Saving a workspace -- The cat command -- The print, format, and paste commands -- Primitive input/output -- Network options -- Opening a socket -- Basic socket operations -- Summary -- 4. Calculating Probabilities and Random Numbers -- Overview -- Distribution functions -- Cumulative distribution functions -- Inverse cumulative distribution functions -- Generating pseudorandom numbers -- Sampling -- Summary -- 5. Character and String Operations -- Basic string operations -- Six focused tasks -- Determining the length of a string -- Location of a substring -- Extracting or changing a substring -- Transforming the case.

Splitting strings -- Creating formatted strings -- Regular expressions -- Summary -- 6. Converting and Defining Time Variables -- Introduction and assumptions -- Converting strings to time data types -- Converting time data types to strings -- Operations on time data types -- Summary -- 7. Basic Programming -- Conditional execution -- Loop constructs -- The for loop -- The while loop -- The repeat loop -- Break and next statements -- Functions -- Defining a function -- Arguments to functions -- Scope -- Executing scripts -- Summary -- 8. S3 Classes -- Defining classes and methods -- Defining objects and inheritance -- Encapsulation -- A final note -- Summary -- 9. S4 Classes -- Introducing the Ant class -- Defining an S4 class -- Defining methods for an S4 class -- Defining new methods -- Polymorphism -- Extending the existing methods -- Inheritance -- Miscellaneous notes -- Summary -- 10. Case Study - Course Grades -- Overview -- The Course class -- The definition of the Course class -- Reading grades from a file -- The assignment classes -- The NumericGrade class -- The LetterGrade class -- Example - reading grades from a file -- Defining indexing operations -- Redefining existing functions -- Redefining arithmetic operations -- Summary -- 11. Case Study - Simulation -- The simulation classes -- The Monte-Carlo class -- Examples -- Summary -- A. Package Management -- Index.