Sams Teach Yourself R in 24 Hours - Softcover

Nicholls, Andy; Pugh, Richard; Gott, Aimee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672338483 ISBN 13: 9780672338489

Publisher: Sams, 2016

Synopsis

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself R in 24 Hours helps you learn all the R skills you need to solve a wide spectrum of real-world data analysis problems. You&;ll master the entire data analysis workflow, learning to build code that&;s efficient, reproducible, and suitable for sharing with others.

This book&;s straightforward, step-by-step approach teaches you how to import, manipulate, summarize, model, and plot data with R; formalize your analytical code; and build powerful R packages using current best practices.

 

Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn.
Quizzes and exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills.

 

Learn How To

• Install, configure, and explore the R environment, including RStudio
• Use basic R syntax, objects, and packages
• Create and manage data structures, including vectors, matrices, and arrays
• Understand lists and data frames
• Work with dates, times, and factors
• Use common R functions, and learn to write your own
• Import and export data and connect to databases and spreadsheets
• Use the popular tidyr, dplyr and data.table packages
• Write more efficient R code with profiling, vectorization, and initialization
• Plot data and extend your graphical capabilities with ggplot2 and Lattice graphics
• Develop common types of models
• Construct high-quality packages, both simple and complex
• Write R classes: S3, S4, and Reference Classes
• Use R to generate dynamic reports
• Build web applications with Shiny

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This book&;s source code can be found at http://www.mango-solutions.com/wp/teach-yourself-r-in-24-hours-book/.

About this title

About the Author

Andy Nicholls has a Master of Mathematics degree from the University of Bath and Master of Science in Statistics with Applications in Medicine from the University of Southampton. Andy worked as a Senior Statistician in the pharmaceutical industry for a number of years before joining Mango Solutions as an R consultant in 2011. Since joining Mango, Andy has taught more than 50 on-site R training courses and has been involved in the development of more than 30 R packages. Today, he manages Mango Solution&;s R consultancy team and continues to be a regular contributor to the quarterly LondonR events, by far the largest R user group in the UK, with over 1,000 meet-up members. Andy lives near the historical city of Bath, UK with his wonderful, tolerant wife and son.

 

Richard Pugh has a first-class Mathematics degree from the University of Bath. Richard worked as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry before joining Insightful, the developers of S-PLUS, joining the pre-sales consulting team. Richard&;s role at Insightful included a variety of activities, providing a range of training and consulting services to blue-chip customers across many sectors. In 2002, Richard co-founded Mango Solutions, developing the company and leading technical efforts around R and other analytic software. Richard is now Mango&;s Chief Data Scientist and speaks regularly at data science and R events. Richard lives in Bradford on Avon, UK with his wife and two kids, and spends most of his &;spare&; (ha!) time renovating his house.

 

Aimee Gott has a PhD in Statistics from Lancaster University where she also completed her undergraduate and master&;s degrees. As Training Lead, Aimee has delivered over 200 days of training for Mango. She has delivered on-site training courses in Europe and the U.S. in all aspects of R, as well as shorter workshops and online webinars. Aimee oversees Mango&;s training course development across the data science pipeline, and regularly attends R user groups and meet-ups. In her spare time, Aimee enjoys learning European languages and documenting her travels through photography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0672338483
• ISBN 13: 9780672338489
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 601