R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

By Joseph Adler

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144931208X
• ISBN13: 9781449312084
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 721 Pages
• Weight: 2.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"