ABSTRACT
The purpose of this monograph is to provide a reference for scientists and programmers working on problems in bioinformatics and computational biology. It may also appeal to programmers who want to improve their programming skills or programmers who have been working in bioinformatics and computational biology but are familiar with languages other than R. A reasonable level of programming skill is presumed as is some familiarity with some of the basic tasks that need to be carried out in bioinformatics. We concentrate on programming tools and there is no discussion of either graphics or of the multitude of software for fitting models or carrying out machine learning. Reasonable coverage of these topics would result in a much longer monograph and to some extent they are orthogonal to our purpose.
