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Learn R programming [Video]

By : David Wilkins
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Learn R programming [Video]

By: David Wilkins

Overview of this book

R is a high-level statistical language and is widely used among statisticians and data miners to develop statistical applications. This solution-based video will be your guide, taking you through different programming aspects with R. Beginning with the basics of R programming, this video provides step-by-step resources and time-saving methods to help you solve programming problems efficiently. Starting with the installation of R, each recipe addresses a specific problem with a discussion that explains the solution and offers insight into how it works. You will learn to work with powerful R tools and techniques. You’ll be able to boost your productivity with the most popular R packages and tackle data structures such as matrices, lists, and factors. You’ll see how to create vectors, handle variables, and perform other core functions. You’ll be able to tackle issues with data input/output and will learn to work with strings and dates. Moving forward, we’ll look into more advanced concepts such as metaprogramming with R and functional programming. Finally, you’ll learn to tackle issues while working with databases and data manipulation.
Table of Contents (4 chapters)
Chapter 3
Working with Base R Data Structures
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Section 5
Exploring Factors
This video explains us why factors exist and how to use them in base R. - Understand what factors are and why they exist - Learn to create factors and work with factor levels - Understand the stringsAsFactors argument