You always wanted to start programming or to take up again your programming capabilities left behind some while ago? R Statistical programming language ® offers a genuine possibility for doing so since this free available tool combines powerful computing with an easy to learn and use framework. This book helps you to get started with practical calculations in the pension business. Programming code is explained step by step allowing to read and visualise life tables, to calculate the price and the capital value of a current pension at any time, to calculate the life expectancy, the funding status and to project assets into the future. A retirement planning application including stochastic returns and inflation adjusted withdrawals, is build and shared on the web including deployment through RShiny ® RShiny allows an easy integration of R developed applications and sharing these on the world wide web. The book shows you the easy steps for sharing through RShiny including deployment of your own application In the Appendix some useful and helping comments are given to set up the R and RShiny framework, together with some syntax and basic programming rules for a good start