Beyond Spreadsheets with R: A beginner's guide to R and RStudio
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- Synopsis
- SummaryBeyond Spreadsheets with R shows you how to take raw data and transform it for use in computations, tables, graphs, and more. You'll build on simple programming techniques like loops and conditionals to create your own custom functions. You'll come away with a toolkit of strategies for analyzing and visualizing data of all sorts using R and RStudio.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologySpreadsheets are powerful tools for many tasks, but if you need to interpret, interrogate, and present data, they can feel like the wrong tools for the task. That's when R programming is the way to go. The R programming language provides a comfortable environment to properly handle all types of data. And within the open source RStudio development suite, you have at your fingertips easy-to-use ways to simplify complex manipulations and create reproducible processes for analysis and reporting.About the BookWith Beyond Spreadsheets with R you'll learn how to go from raw data to meaningful insights using R and RStudio. Each carefully crafted chapter covers a unique way to wrangle data, from understanding individual values to interacting with complex collections of data, including data you scrape from the web. You'll build on simple programming techniques like loops and conditionals to create your own custom functions. You'll come away with a toolkit of strategies for analyzing and visualizing data of all sorts.What's insideHow to start programming with R and RStudioUnderstanding and implementing important R structures and operatorsInstalling and working with R packagesTidying, refining, and plotting your dataAbout the ReaderIf you're comfortable writing formulas in Excel, you're ready for this book.About the AuthorDr Jonathan Carroll is a data science consultant providing R programming services. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics.Table of ContentsIntroducing data and the R languageGetting to know R data typesMaking new data valuesUnderstanding the tools you'll use: FunctionsCombining data valuesSelecting data valuesDoing things with lots of dataDoing things conditionally: Control structuresVisualizing data: PlottingDoing more with your data with extensions
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 352 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781638356080
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781617294594
- Publisher:
- Manning Publications
- Date of Addition:
- 06/15/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Manning Publications Co.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Computers and Internet
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.