R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
Paperback 724 pages English October 19, 2012
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If you're considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. You'll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from medicine, business, and sports. Updated for R 2.14 and 2.15, this second edition includes new and expanded chapters on R performance, the ggplot2 data visualization package, and parallel R computing with Hadoop. Get started quickly with an R tutorial and hundreds of examples Explore R syntax, objects, and other language details Find thousands of user-contributed R packages online, including Bioconductor Learn how to use R to prepare data for analysis Visualize your data with R's graphics, lattice, and ggplot2 packages Use R to calculate statistical fests, fit models, and compute probability distributions Speed up intensive computations by writing parallel R programs for Hadoop Get a complete desktop reference to R
- Author:
- Joseph Adler
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Publication Date:
- October 19, 2012
- Number of pages:
- 724 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 144931208X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781449312084