In this part, after quickly listing the main characteristics of the language, we present the basic data types, how to create them, how to explore them, how to extract pieces of them, how to modify them.

We then jump to more advanced subjects (most of which can – should? – be omitted by first-time readers): debugging, profiling, namespaces, objects, interface with other programs, with data bases, with other languages.

1. Control Structures
2. Functions
3. Data Structures
4. Operators
5. Debugging
6. Object Oriented Programming
7. Dirty Tricks
8. Writing Your Own Package
9. Other Languages
10. GUI (Graphical User Interface)
11. Web Programming
12. Cluster, Parallel Programming
13. Numerical Optimization
14. Miscellaneous

2006/06/12 This has been subsectionned because the file was getting too big and so to slow to view

Adapted from http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/02.html by Romain François 2006/02/19 01:49