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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

Deploying your app on Amazon AWS with ramazon


RStudio offers a great facility for Shiny apps deployment, named shinyapps.io. This hosting web platform is perfectly integrated with RStudio and lets you deploy your app by hitting a button. You can find convenient tutorials at http://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/shinyapps.html.

A large number of developers are used to the structure and facilities of Amazon AWS, which provides an integrated and solid framework for web application deployment.

Amazon AWS is one of the best-known services of its kind. However, publishing apps on it can be laborious for non-expert users, requiring you to remotely log in on a Linux server and perform terminal downloading and installation activities. That is why I have developed the ramazon package, which lets you publish a Shiny application on Amazon simply by running a function. This recipe exposes the usage of the package.

Getting ready

In order to install a Shiny server on Amazon AWS, you first need to create an EC2...