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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned the basic behaviors of numeric vectors, logical vectors, and character vectors. These vectors are homogeneous data types that can only store elements of the same type. By contrast, lists and data frames are more flexible since they store elements of different types. You learned how to subset these data structures and extract an element from them. Finally, you learned about creating and calling functions.

Now you know the rules of the game, you need to get familiar with the playground. In the next chapter, we will cover some basic yet important things about managing the workspace. I will show you some common practices of managing the working directory, the environment, and the library of packages.