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Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

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Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

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Overview of this book

RStudio helps you to manage small to large projects by giving you a multi-functional integrated development environment, combined with the power and flexibility of the R programming language, which is becoming the bridge language of data science for developers and analyst worldwide. Mastering the use of RStudio will help you to solve real-world data problems. This book begins by guiding you through the installation of RStudio and explaining the user interface step by step. From there, the next logical step is to use this knowledge to improve your data analysis workflow. We will do this by building up our toolbox to create interactive reports and graphs or even web applications with Shiny. To collaborate with others, we will explore how to use Git and GitHub and how to build your own packages to ensure top quality results. Finally, we put it all together in an interactive dashboard written with R.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering RStudio – Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Improving your R knowledge


R is more popular than ever. It has been the go-to language for many statisticians and analysts since a long time. But, the popularity of this programming language has skyrocketed due to the advent of the now ubiquitous topic areas of Data Science, big data, and Machine Learning. Therefore, it is only natural that more and more people also want to learn R. Thus, there are now a large number of different types of learning opportunities.

Learning R interactively

Learning by doing is the best possible way for many people to learn something new. Because of that, there are several different platforms where you can learn R interactively. This means directly in your browser or in R/RStudio. The following examples can be started whenever and wherever you like.

Try R

The official site for try R is http://tryr.codeschool.com/. Try R by Code School offers a very basic but entertaining and visually appealing course to get started with R. Everyone who is interested in R and wants...