Learn R - As a Language

This book teaches how to use the R for data analysis. It focuses on how to use R to flexibly explore and analyse data to efficiently and reliably extract information. Using this book, the reader will become confident and reasonably independent in the use of R when faced with new challenges.

List of contents

1. R: the language and the program
2. The R language: "words" and "sentences"
3. The R language: "paragraphs" and "essays"
4. The R language: Statistics
5. The R language: adding new "words"
6. New grammars of data
7. Grammar of graphics
8. Data import and export
9. Bibliography
10. General index
11. Index of R names by category
12. Alphabetic index of R names

About the author

Pedro J. Aphalo is a PhD graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and is currently a lecturer at the University of Helsinki. A plant biologist and agriculture scientist with a passion for data, electronics, computers, and photography, in addition to plants, Dr. Aphalo has been a user of R for 25 years. He first organized an R course for MSc students 18 years ago, and is the author of 13 R packages currently in CRAN.

Product details

• Authors: Pedro J. Aphalo, Pedro J. (University of Helsinki Aphalo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367182533
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18253-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, computer science, Probability and statistics, Programming and scripting languages: general, Mathematical and statistical software, COMPUTERS / Languages / General, COMPUTERS / Languages / Assembly Language