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R Programming Fundamentals

R Programming Fundamentals

By : Kaelen Medeiros
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R Programming Fundamentals

R Programming Fundamentals

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By: Kaelen Medeiros

Overview of this book

R Programming Fundamentals, focused on R and the R ecosystem, introduces you to the tools for working with data. You’ll start by understanding how to set up R and RStudio, followed by exploring R packages, functions, data structures, control flow, and loops. Once you have grasped the basics, you’ll move on to studying data visualization and graphics. You’ll learn how to build statistical and advanced plots using the powerful ggplot2 library. In addition to this, you’ll discover data management concepts such as factoring, pivoting, aggregating, merging, and dealing with missing values. By the end of this book, you’ll have completed an entire data science project of your own for your portfolio or blog.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
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What This Book Covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to R, deals with installation of R, RStudio, and other useful packages, and talks about variable types and data structures. The chapter then introduces the different kinds of loops that can be used in R, explains how to import and export data, and also talks about getting help with R programming.

Chapter 2, Data Visualization and Graphics, covers the basic plots built into R and how to create them, and then introduces ggplot, a popular graphics package in R. Finally, the chapter briefly talks about two tools, Shiny and Plotly, that can be used to design interactive plots.

Chapter 3, Data Management, discusses how to create and manipulate factor variables, examine data using tables, apply the family of functions to generate summaries, and split, combine, merge, or join datasets in R.

The Appendix contains the solutions to all the activities within the chapters.

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