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Overview
Beginning R, Second Edition is a hands-on book showing how to use the R language, write and save R scripts, read in data files, and write custom statistical functions as well as use built in functions. This book shows the use of R in specific cases such as one-way ANOVA analysis, linear and logistic regression, data visualization, parallel processing, bootstrapping, and more. It takes a hands-on, example-based approach incorporating best practices with clear explanations of the statistics being done. It has been completely re-written since the first edition to make use of the latest packages and features in R version 3.
R is a powerful open-source language and programming environment for statistics and has become the de facto standard for doing, teaching, and learning computational statistics. R is both an object-oriented language and a functional language that is easy to learn, easy to use, and completely free. A large community of dedicated R users and programmers provides an excellent source of R code, functions, and data sets, with a constantly evolving ecosystem of packages providing new functionality for data analysis. R has also become popular in commercial use at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. Your investment in learning R is sure to pay off in the long term as R continues to grow into the go to language for data analysis and research.What You Will Learn:
- How to acquire and install R
- Hot to import and export data and scripts
- How to analyze data and generate graphics
- How to program in R to write custom functions
- Hot to use R for interactive statistical explorations
- How to conduct bootstrapping and other advanced techniques
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781484203743
- ISBN-10: 1484203747
- Publisher: Apress
- Publish Date: October 2015
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.74 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.36 pounds
- Page Count: 327
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