R : in a nutshell / Joseph Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Joseph, M.Eng.

Series:

Nutshell handbook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical statistics--Data processing.

Mathematical statistics.

R (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (722 p.)

Edition:

2nd.ed.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

If you’re considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. You’ll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from medicine, business, and sports. Updated for R 2.14 and 2.15, this second edition includes new and expanded chapters on R performance, the ggplot2 data visualization package, and parallel R computing with Hadoop. Get started quickly with an R tutorial and hundreds of examples Explore R syntax, objects, and other language details Find thousands of user-contributed R packages online, including Bioconductor Learn how to use R to prepare data for analysis Visualize your data with R’s graphics, lattice, and ggplot2 packages Use R to calculate statistical fests, fit models, and compute probability distributions Speed up intensive computations by writing parallel R programs for Hadoop Get a complete desktop reference to R

Notes:

"A desktop quick reference"--Cover.

Previous edition: Sebastapol, California: O'Reilly, 2010.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449358228

1449358225

9781449358204

1449358209

9781449358235

1449358233

OCLC:

825821376