R Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, APIs and Library - Softcover

Tollefson, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484244044 ISBN 13: 9781484244043

Publisher: Apress, 2019

Synopsis

This handy reference book detailing the intricacies of R updates the popular first edition by adding R version 3.4 and 3.5 features. Starting with the basic structure of R, the book takes you on a journey through the terminology used in R and the syntax required to make R work. You will find looking up the correct form for an expression quick and easy. Some of the new material includes information on RStudio, S4 syntax, working with character strings, and an example using the Twitter API.

With a copy of the R Quick Syntax Reference in hand, you will find that you are able to use the multitude of functions available in R and are even able to write your own functions to explore and analyze data.

What You Will Learn

• Discover the modes and classes of R objects and how to use them
  
• Use both packaged and user-created functions in R 
  
• Import/export data and create new data objects in R
  
• Create descriptive functions and manipulate objects in R
  
• Take advantage of flow control and conditional statements
  
• Work with packages such as base, stats, and graphics
  

Who This Book Is For

Those with programming experience, either new to R, or those with at least some exposure to R but who are new to the latest version.

About this title

About the Author

Margot Tollefson is a self-employed consulting statistician residing in the tiny town of Stratford in the corn and soybean fields of north-central Iowa. She started using the S-Plus language in the early 1990s and was happy to switch to R about ten years ago. Margot enjoys writing her own functions in R - to do plots and simulations, as well as to implement custom modeling and use published statistical methods. She earned her graduate degrees in statistics from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

From the Back Cover

This handy reference book detailing the intricacies of R updates the popular first edition by adding R version 3.4 and 3.5 features. Starting with the basic structure of R, the book takes you on a journey through the terminology used in R and the syntax required to make R work. You will find looking up the correct form for an expression quick and easy. Some of the new material includes information on RStudio, S4 syntax, working with character strings, and an example using the Twitter API.

With a copy of the R Quick Syntax Reference in hand, you will find that you are able to use the multitude of functions available in R and are even able to write your own functions to explore and analyze data.

You will:

• Discover the modes and classes of R objects and how to use them
  
• Use both packaged and user-created functions in R 
  
• Import/export data and create new data objects in R
  
• Create descriptive functions and manipulate objects in R
  
• Take advantage of flow control and conditional statements
  
• Work with packages such as base, stats, and graphics

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484244044
• ISBN 13: 9781484244043
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 382