Opening of the Way

So this is a very large book.

The Book of R, by Tilman M. Davies  ( 2016 No Starch Press )
https://www.amazon.com/Book-First-Course-Programming-Statistics/dp/1593276516/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547944745&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Book+of+R%2C+by+Tilman+M.+Davies

So this though deals a great deal with statistics, instructing us about statistics, as opposed to laying out the critical computer issues.  These later are more of my current interest.  They recommend their other book:

The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design, by Norman Matloff
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Programming-Statistical-Software-Design/dp/1593273843/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547944950&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+r+programming

And then what I think really will give me what I want:

R Packages: Organize, Test, Document, and Share Your Code, by Hadley Wickham
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1491910593/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3

So let me try and record some of the more important stuff in the Tilman Davies book.

Official Site, should have good online documentation
https://www.r-project.org/

CRAN
Comprehensive R Archive Network

R has its own GUI, with two windows nominally, Console and Editor.

Package used in the book, 'MASS'

book about it from S

Modern applied statistics with S / W.N. Venables, B.D. Ripley. (2002)

so  you can install, update, or remove packages.

You can also get help, ?? or ? about something.

There are third party editors, but the most well liked is Rstudio
https://www.rstudio.com/

And there is Rmarkdown, making your work repeatable.

a (dot)Rdata file holds everything from your R session.

You can type stuff into R, using it as a calculator.

Works well with directory trees and paths, and you can view this.

Vectors are important, as we have seen in APL ( Array Processing Language )

Matrices are two dimensional. Arrays can be 3, not sure if it can be more.  But still seems to fall far short of a deeply object oriented language.

So you can do all sorts of matrix operations, including the inverse, as 'solve'

Matrix computations / Gene H. Golub, Charles F. Van Loan (2013)   looks really really good.  Davies though is referencing an earlier edition.

But still need more than this.

Non-Numeric Values:
TRUE and FALSE, logical comparisons, strings and characters, concatenations.

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*New* Mormonism, "The Angel and The Sorcerer," Peter Lavenda ( surprising indeed, LDS being really an occult group, and coming from same sources as Scientology )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaIjm84SPUo&spfreload=5

Peter Levenda | Lovecraft, The Yazidi, & Middle Eastern Magic  ( this Peter Levenda is always extremely interesting to listen to )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzxuMtAPyyE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRU9tgr_9vc

Stones Play List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0Qt1lvLq8&list=PLFFC0DE5C257B32AF&index=1

"Matrices are two dimensional. Arrays can be 3, not sure if it can be more.  But still seems to fall far short of a deeply object oriented language."

Arrays can be as many dimensions as you like. Only constraint is memory.