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Learning R Programming

By : Kun Ren
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Learning R Programming

By: Kun Ren

Overview of this book

R is a high-level functional language and one of the must-know tools for data science and statistics. Powerful but complex, R can be challenging for beginners and those unfamiliar with its unique behaviors. Learning R Programming is the solution - an easy and practical way to learn R and develop a broad and consistent understanding of the language. Through hands-on examples you'll discover powerful R tools, and R best practices that will give you a deeper understanding of working with data. You'll get to grips with R's data structures and data processing techniques, as well as the most popular R packages to boost your productivity from the offset. Start with the basics of R, then dive deep into the programming techniques and paradigms to make your R code excel. Advance quickly to a deeper understanding of R's behavior as you learn common tasks including data analysis, databases, web scraping, high performance computing, and writing documents. By the end of the book, you'll be a confident R programmer adept at solving problems with the right techniques.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning R Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 15. Boosting Productivity

In the previous chapter, we learned to use R to extract information from web pages. To understand how this works, we learned several languages such as HTML, CSS, and XPath. In fact, R has much more to offer than just a statistical computing environment. The R community provides tools for everything from data collection, to data manipulation, statistical modeling, visualization, and all the way to reporting and presentation.

In this chapter, we will learn about a number of packages that boost our productivity. We'll review several languages we learned throughout this book and get to know another one: markdown. We'll see how R and markdown can be combined to produce powerful dynamic documents. More specifically, we'll:

  • Get to know markdown and R Markdown

  • Embed tables, charts, diagrams and interactive plots

  • Create interactive apps