R All-in-One For Dummies - Joseph Schmuller
Five mini-books on the R language in one volume: R basics, statistical analysis, data visualisation, machine learning and worked projects. A route into data work for beginners.
Features
What R All-in-One For Dummies covers
R is the language statisticians and data analysts reach for, and this book is five mini-books on it bound into one 688-page paperback. Joseph Schmuller, who also wrote Statistical Analysis with R For Dummies, starts from your first lines of R and works up to the projects R programmers actually spend their time on.
The five parts
- Introducing R - installing R and RStudio, variables, vectors, data frames and writing functions
- Working with data - importing, cleaning and reshaping data sets
- Statistics with R - descriptive statistics, hypothesis tests, regression and ANOVA
- Machine learning with R - classification, clustering and building simple models
- Visualisation and projects - ggplot2 charts and sample projects to practise on
Who it suits
It is aimed at people moving into data from somewhere else: an analyst outgrowing spreadsheets, a student facing a statistics module, or a developer who knows another language and wants R alongside it. You do not need prior programming experience, but some comfort with basic statistics helps with the later parts.
How it compares
If you want Python and R side by side, Data Science Programming All-in-One For Dummies splits its pages between the two. If R is the language your course or job uses, this book goes deeper on it.
Book details
- Author: Joseph Schmuller
- Publisher: For Dummies (Wiley), 1st edition, 7 Feb 2023
- Format: paperback, 688 pages
- ISBN-13: 978-1119983699