Book: Efficient R Programming

Authors

Colin Gillespie is Senior lecturer (Associate professor) at Newcastle University, UK. He has been running R courses for over five years at a variety of levels, ranging from beginners to advanced programming. His research interests are high performance statistical computing and Bayesian statistics.

Robin Lovelace is a Research Fellow in the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, which specialises in the handling of large datasets. Robin has 5 years using R for academic research and 3 years teaching R at all levels. Robin developed the popular tutorial Introduction to Visualising Spatial Data in R and authored Spatial Microsimulation with R Lovelace and Dumont (2016). Robin has used R on mission-critical contracts, including the creation of a nationally scalable interactive online mapping tool for the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) (see www.pct.bike).