R Data Science Quick Reference: A Pocket Guide to APIs, Libraries, and Packages - Softcover

Mailund, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484248937 ISBN 13: 9781484248935

Publisher: Apress, 2019

Synopsis

In this handy, practical book you will cover each concept concisely, with many illustrative examples. You'll be introduced to several R data science packages, with examples of how to use each of them. 

In this book, you’ll learn about the following APIs and packages that deal specifically with data science applications: readr, dibble, forecasts, lubridate, stringr, tidyr, magnittr, dplyr, purrr, ggplot2, modelr, and more.

After using this handy quick reference guide, you'll have the code, APIs, and insights to write data science-based applications in the R programming language.  You'll also be able to carry out data analysis.  

What You Will Learn

• Import data with readr
• Work with categories using forcats, time and dates with lubridate, and strings with stringr
• Format data using tidyr and then transform that data using magrittr and dplyr
Write functions with R for data science, data mining, and analytics-based applications
• Visualize data with ggplot2 and fit data to models using modelr

Who This Book Is For

Programmers new to R's data science, data mining, and analytics packages.  Some prior coding experience with R in general is recommended.  

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Mailund is an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has a background in math and computer science.  For the last decade, his main focus has been on genetics and evolutionary studies, particularly comparative genomics, speciation, and gene flow between emerging species.  He has published Beginning Data Science in R, Functional Programming in R, and Metaprogramming in R with Apress as well as other books.  

From the Back Cover

In this handy, practical book you will cover each concept concisely, with many illustrative examples. You'll be introduced to several R data science packages, with examples of how to use each of them. 

In this book, you'll learn about the following APIs and packages that deal specifically with data science applications:  readr, tibble, forcates, lubridate, stringr, tidyr, magnittr, dplyr, purrr, ggplot2, modelr, broom, knitr, shiny, and more.

After using this handy quick reference guide, you'll have the code, APIs, and insights to write data science-based applications in the R programming language.  You'll also be able to carry out data analysis.  

You will:

• Get started with RMarkdown and notebooks
  
• Import data with readr
  
• Work with categories using forcats, time and dates with lubridate, and strings with stringr
  
• Format data using tidyr and then transform that data using magrittr and dplyr
  
• Write functions with R for data science, data mining, and analytics-based applications
  
• Visualize data with ggplot 2 and data fit for models using modelr and broom
  
• Report results with markdown, knitr, shiny, and more

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484248937
• ISBN 13: 9781484248935
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 255