Domain-Specific Languages in R

Advanced Statistical Programming
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4842-3587-4
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 4102 g

Gain an accelerated introduction to domain-specific languages in R, including coverage of regular expressions. This compact, in-depth book shows you how DSLs are programming languages specialized for a particular purpose, as opposed to general purpose programming languages. Along the way, you’ll learn to specify tasks you want to do in a precise way and achieve programming goals within a domain-specific context. 

Domain-Specific Languages in R includes examples of DSLs including large data sets or matrix multiplication; pattern matching DSLs for application in computer vision; and DSLs for continuous time Markov chains and their applications in data science. After reading and using this book, you’ll understand how to write DSLs in R and have skills you can extrapolate to other programming languages.

What You'll Learn

• Program with domain-specific languages using R
  
• Discover the components of DSLs
  
• Carry out large matrix expressions and multiplications 
  
• Implement metaprogramming with DSLs
  
• Parse and manipulate expressions 
  

Who This Book Is For

Those with prior programming experience. R knowledge is helpful but not required.  

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mailund, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmierung: Methoden und Allgemeines
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mathematik für Informatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Matrix expressions.- 3. Components of a programming language.- 4. Functions, classes and operators.- 5. Parsing and manipulating expressions.- 6. Lambda expressions.- 7. Environments and Expressions.- 8. Tidy evaluation.- 9. List comprehension.- 10. Continuous-Time Markov chains.- 11. Pattern matching.- 12. Dynamic programming.- 13. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Mailund is an associate professor in bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has a background in math and computer science.  For the last decade, his main focus has been on genetics and evolutionary studies, particularly comparative genomics, speciation, and gene flow between emerging species.  He has published Beginning Data Science in R, Functional Programming in R and Metaprogramming in R with Apress as well as other books.