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RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook

By : Andrea Cirillo
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RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook

By: Andrea Cirillo

Overview of this book

The requirement of handling complex datasets, performing unprecedented statistical analysis, and providing real-time visualizations to businesses has concerned statisticians and analysts across the globe. RStudio is a useful and powerful tool for statistical analysis that harnesses the power of R for computational statistics, visualization, and data science, in an integrated development environment. This book is a collection of recipes that will help you learn and understand RStudio features so that you can effectively perform statistical analysis and reporting, code editing, and R development. The first few chapters will teach you how to set up your own data analysis project in RStudio, acquire data from different data sources, and manipulate and clean data for analysis and visualization purposes. You'll get hands-on with various data visualization methods using ggplot2, and you will create interactive and multidimensional visualizations with D3.js. Additional recipes will help you optimize your code; implement various statistical models to manage large datasets; perform text analysis and predictive analysis; and master time series analysis, machine learning, forecasting; and so on. In the final few chapters, you'll learn how to create reports from your analytical application with the full range of static and dynamic reporting tools that are available in RStudio so that you can effectively communicate results and even transform them into interactive web applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Curating a blog through RStudio


So now you do all your analytical work in RStudio. You create reports about your job in RStudio, either as PDF documents or HTML files. You even produce slides in RStudio.

Excluding asking RStudio to pay your bills, what more could you expect from this IDE?

Perhaps producing websites to share your work on the World Wide Web.

Well, RStudio actually can do it!

This recipe will show you how to produce and maintain a blog directly from RStudio.

We will see how to produce a website composed of R Markdown files and structured in the following recipe.

Getting ready

To perform some of the activities in this recipe, we will employ the wget utility, which is available both for Unix and Windows OS.

We will use it to download and save HTML files from the Web.

You can find information on wget installation for Unix OS at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-freebsd-installing-gnu-wget-command-port/.

For Windows OS, I suggest that you visit the page by Richard Baxter at https://builtvisible...