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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)

Further reading


There is much more to be said about version control and we have only covered enough here to get you started with the most common operations. As you grow accustomed with version control, you probably want to start using more features than are currently interfaced through RStudio. The first features to look into are probably branching and merging of development lines and reverting commits. A good online resource for using GIT on the command line is the GIT book (http://git-scm.com/book). For Subversion, the SVN book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com), which is partly written by some of Subversion's developers comes highly recommended. Both books can be read for free online or ordered as a hard copy.