An essential guide to the trouble spots and oddities of R. In spite of the quirks exposed here, R is the best computing environment for most data analysis tasks. R is free, open-source, and has thousands of contributed packages. It is used in such diverse fields as ecology, finance, genomics and music. If you are using spreadsheets to understand data, switch to R. You will have safer -- and ultimately, more convenient -- computations.
With the tutorials in this hands-on guide, youll learn how to use the essential R tools you need to know to analyze data, including data types and programming concepts.
"This book is about the fundamentals of R programming.
Discovering Statistics Using R
本书包括语言,编程,统计学和概率,统计检验和建模,绘图共5个部分,基本涵盖了国外大学一,二年级的统计学课程.在讲授知识的同时,本书注重学以致用,每章穿插了许多练习 ...