r4ds/preface-2e.qmd

# Preface to the second edition {.unnumbered}

Welcome to the second edition of "R for Data Science"!
This is a major reworking of the first edition, removing material we no longer think is useful, adding material we wish we included in the first edition, and generally updating the text and code to reflect changes in best practices.
We're also very excited to welcome a new co-author: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, a noted data science educator and one of our colleagues at Posit (the company formerly known as RStudio).

A brief summary of the biggest changes follows:

-   The first part of the book has been renamed to "Whole game".
    The goal of this section is to give you the rough details of the "whole game" of data science before we dive into the details.

-   The second part of the book is now called "Transform" and gains chapters new chapters on numbers, logical vectors, and missing values.
    These were previously parts of the data transformation chapter, but needed much more room.

-   The third part of the book is called "Wrangle".
    It's a new set of chapters that goes beyond reading flat text files to now embrace working with spreadsheets, getting data out of databases, rectangling tree-like data, and scraping data from web sites.

-   The "Program" part continues, but has been rewritten from top-to-bottom to focus on the most important parts of function writing and iteration.
    Function writing now includes sections on how to wrap tidyverse functions (dealing with the challenges of tidy evaluation), since this has become much easier over the last few years.
    We've added a new chapter on important Base R functions that you're likely to see when reading R code found in the wild.

-   The modeling part has been removed.
    We never had enough room to fully do modelling justice, and there are now much better resources available.
    We geneally recommend using the [tidymodels](https://www.tidymodels.org/) packages and reading [Tidy Modeling with R](https://www.tmwr.org/) by Max Kuhn and Julia Silge.

Other changes include switching from magrittr's pipe (`%>%`) to the base pipe (`|>`) and switching from RMarkdown to Quarto.
Add 2nd edition preface and planned major changes 2021-02-22 04:09:08 +08:00			`# Preface to the second edition {.unnumbered}`

Update the preface 2022-11-21 22:58:22 +08:00			`Welcome to the second edition of "R for Data Science"!`
			`This is a major reworking of the first edition, removing material we no longer think is useful, adding material we wish we included in the first edition, and generally updating the text and code to reflect changes in best practices.`
			`We're also very excited to welcome a new co-author: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, a noted data science educator and one of our colleagues at Posit (the company formerly known as RStudio).`
Add 2nd edition preface and planned major changes 2021-02-22 04:09:08 +08:00
Update the preface 2022-11-21 22:58:22 +08:00			`A brief summary of the biggest changes follows:`
Add 2nd edition preface and planned major changes 2021-02-22 04:09:08 +08:00
Update the preface 2022-11-21 22:58:22 +08:00			`- The first part of the book has been renamed to "Whole game".`
			`The goal of this section is to give you the rough details of the "whole game" of data science before we dive into the details.`
Move missing values later; update preface 2022-05-04 21:53:13 +08:00
Update the preface 2022-11-21 22:58:22 +08:00			`- The second part of the book is now called "Transform" and gains chapters new chapters on numbers, logical vectors, and missing values.`
Convert to Quarto book (#1026) * Use _quarto.yml * Rmd -> qmd * Update build type to None * Update styling Styling to get close to bs4_book + color * Convert crossrefs * Covert chunk options * Switch to plausible for analytics * Update action 2022-05-14 04:46:49 +08:00			`These were previously parts of the data transformation chapter, but needed much more room.`
Move missing values later; update preface 2022-05-04 21:53:13 +08:00
Update the preface 2022-11-21 22:58:22 +08:00			`- The third part of the book is called "Wrangle".`
			`It's a new set of chapters that goes beyond reading flat text files to now embrace working with spreadsheets, getting data out of databases, rectangling tree-like data, and scraping data from web sites.`
Move missing values later; update preface 2022-05-04 21:53:13 +08:00
Update the preface 2022-11-21 22:58:22 +08:00			`- The "Program" part continues, but has been rewritten from top-to-bottom to focus on the most important parts of function writing and iteration.`
			`Function writing now includes sections on how to wrap tidyverse functions (dealing with the challenges of tidy evaluation), since this has become much easier over the last few years.`
			`We've added a new chapter on important Base R functions that you're likely to see when reading R code found in the wild.`
Move missing values later; update preface 2022-05-04 21:53:13 +08:00
Convert to Quarto book (#1026) * Use _quarto.yml * Rmd -> qmd * Update build type to None * Update styling Styling to get close to bs4_book + color * Convert crossrefs * Covert chunk options * Switch to plausible for analytics * Update action 2022-05-14 04:46:49 +08:00			`- The modeling part has been removed.`
Update the preface 2022-11-21 22:58:22 +08:00			`We never had enough room to fully do modelling justice, and there are now much better resources available.`
			`We geneally recommend using the [tidymodels](https://www.tidymodels.org/) packages and reading [Tidy Modeling with R](https://www.tmwr.org/) by Max Kuhn and Julia Silge.`
Add 2nd edition preface and planned major changes 2021-02-22 04:09:08 +08:00
Update the preface 2022-11-21 22:58:22 +08:00			Other changes include switching from magrittr's pipe (`%>%`) to the base pipe (`\|>`) and switching from RMarkdown to Quarto.