Learning R: A Step-by-Step Function Guide to Data Analysis - Softcover

Cotton, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449357105 ISBN 13: 9781449357108

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2013

Synopsis

Learn how to perform data analysis with the R language and software environment, even if you have little or no programming experience. With the tutorials in this hands-on guide, youâ??ll learn how to use the essential R tools you need to know to analyze data, including data types and programming concepts.

The second half of Learning R shows you real data analysis in action by covering everything from importing data to publishing your results. Each chapter in the book includes a quiz on what youâ??ve learned, and concludes with exercises, most of which involve writing R code.

• Write a simple R program, and discover what the language can do
• Use data types such as vectors, arrays, lists, data frames, and strings
• Execute code conditionally or repeatedly with branches and loops
• Apply R add-on packages, and package your own work for others
• Learn how to clean data you import from a variety of sources
• Understand data through visualization and summary statistics
• Use statistical models to pass quantitative judgments about data and make predictions
• Learn what to do when things go wrong while writing data analysis code

About this title

About the Author

Richie is a data scientist with a background in chemical health and safety, and has worked extensively on tools to give non-technical users access to statistical models. He is the author of the R packages "assertive" for checking the state of your variables and "sig" to make sure your functions have a sensible API. He runs The Damned Liars statistics consultancy.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1449357105
• ISBN 13: 9781449357108
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396