R in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference
- Editore:
O'Reilly UK Ltd.
- Collana:
- In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
- EAN:
9781449312084
- ISBN:
144931208X
- Pagine:
- 724
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione R in a Nutshell
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
