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R Programming Fundamentals

By : Samik Sen
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R Programming Fundamentals

By: Samik Sen

Overview of this book

R Programming Fundamentals, focused on R and the R ecosystem, introduces you to the tools for working with data. To start with, you'll understand you 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 course, you'll have completed an entire data science project of your own for your portfolio or blog. The code bundle for this course is available at: https://github.com/TrainingByPackt/R-Programming-Fundamentals
Table of Contents (3 chapters)
Chapter 1
Introduction to R
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Section 5
Variable Types and Data Structures: Variable Types
Now, let us begin first with an exploration of different variable types and then look at different data structures in R. We will also learn that all variables created in R will have a class and a type. Let us understand how to use different numeric objects, character objects, and date objects.