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Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing

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Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing

Overview of this book

Data is coming at us faster, dirtier, and at an ever increasing rate. The necessity to handle many, complex statistical analysis projects is hitting statisticians and analysts across the globe. This book will show you how to deal with it like never before, thus providing an edge and improving productivity. "Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing" will teach you how to quickly and efficiently create and manage statistical analysis projects, import data, develop R scripts, and generate reports and graphics. R developers will learn about package development, coding principles, and version control with RStudio. This book will help you to learn and understand RStudio features to effectively perform statistical analysis and reporting, code editing, and R development. The book starts with a quick introduction where you will learn to load data, perform simple analysis, plot a graph, and generate automatic reports. You will then be able to explore the available features for effective coding, graphical analysis, R project management, report generation, and even project management. "Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing" is stuffed with feature-rich and easy-to-understand examples, through step-by-step instructions helping you to quickly master the most popular IDE for R development.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Working with a team


Working with a team on a project is almost unthinkable without a version control system. In principle, with GIT it is possible to work without a central repository. However, it is very common to still work with a central repository where collaborators can pull changes from and push their own. There are several online resources where you can host your open source projects free of charge. Popular ones include github (obviously supporting GIT only), code.google.com, and bitbucket. The latter two support GIT as well as Subversion. At the time of writing, bitbucket is the only of these three hosting non-open repositories for free as well.

To start on a project with an online repository, you need to create an account and create a new project at the hosting site. When you create a project, you usually have to choose the version control system you want to use. Once the online repository is created, start RStudio and click on Project | New project. Choose Check out a project from...