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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

Introduction


This final chapter will add some advanced communication tools to your programmer toolkit. These tools will enable you to show your analytics work in the best possible way.

We are going to deepen our knowledge of R Markdown, the RStudio version of the markup language markdown introduced in Chapter 7, Developing Static Reports. R Markdown integrates the core features of this language with some powerful facilities for R code integration.

This language will let us create dynamic and parametrized reports, perfect for periodical reporting activity, such as doing market surveys and audit follow-ups.

We will always meet RPubs in the results-sharing field. It is an online publication platform perfectly integrated with RStudio, which will let you publish your work directly from your favorite IDE by just hitting a button.

Finally, we will explore the ever-expanding world of Shiny, the web application framework provided by RStudio.

Within this field, we will touch upon the advanced topic of...