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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

Using GitHub with RStudio


Have you ever found yourself looking desperately at your RStudio console showing a runtime error? Doesn't it make you think of those wonderful moments a few days ago, where you were happily executing your code?

Have you ever thought "If I just had a time machine, I would go back to those days!"?

Well, what we will show you here is exactly that—a way to add your RStudio project to a time machine.

The name of this time machine is Git, which is a popular version-control system created by Linus Torvald; yes, he is the same guy who created Linux.

The basic rationale behind this kind of software is quite simple: the changes within a script (and actually every kind of file) are stored in commits and all commits are stored in one repository.

In every moment of code development is possible to restore previous commits and get back in time.

Git actually offers a lot more, for example, letting you create branches in your code, to develop and test new features or just fix bugs, and...