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Modern R Programming Cookbook

By : Jaynal Abedin
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Modern R Programming Cookbook

By: Jaynal Abedin

Overview of this book

R is a powerful tool for statistics, graphics, and statistical programming. It is used by tens of thousands of people daily to perform serious statistical analyses. It is a free, open source system whose implementation is the collective accomplishment of many intelligent, hard-working people. There are more than 2,000 available add-ons, and R is a serious rival to all commercial statistical packages. The objective of this book is to show how to work with different programming aspects of R. The emerging R developers and data science could have very good programming knowledge but might have limited understanding about R syntax and semantics. Our book will be a platform develop practical solution out of real world problem in scalable fashion and with very good understanding. You will work with various versions of R libraries that are essential for scalable data science solutions. You will learn to work with Input / Output issues when working with relatively larger dataset. At the end of this book readers will also learn how to work with databases from within R and also what and how meta programming helps in developing applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Installing the PostgreSQL database server

PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful database management systems, and is publicly available, and free of cost. This open source database management software runs on every platform, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. Using this database management system, you will be able to store and process very large data. The following table will give you an understanding of how large data can be handled using the PostgreSQL database:

Limit

Value

Maximum database size

Unlimited

Maximum table size

32 TB

Maximum row size

1.6 TB

Maximum field size

1 GB

Maximum row per table

Unlimited

Maximum columns per table

250-1,600 depending on column types

Maximum indexes per table

Unlimited

Capacity of PostgreSQL database (source: https://www.postgresql.org/about/)

In this recipe, you will download and install...