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R Quick Syntax Reference

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Authors:
  1. Margot Tollefson
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  • The R Quick Syntax Reference is a handy reference book detailing the intricacies of the R language.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages vii-xiv
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  2. R Basics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Downloading R and Setting Up a File System

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      Pages 3-8

    3. The R Prompt

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      Pages 9-10

    4. Assignments and Operators

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      Pages 11-22

  3. Kinds of Objects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Modes of Objects

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      Pages 25-36

    3. Classes of Objects

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      Pages 37-56

  4. Functions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Packaged Functions

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      Pages 59-63

    3. User-Created Functions

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      Pages 65-70

    4. How to Use a Function

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      Pages 71-75

  5. Inputting and Creating Data, Outputting Data and Output, and Manipulating Objects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Importing and Creating Data

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      Pages 79-94

    3. Exporting from R

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      Pages 95-103

    4. Descriptive Functions and Manipulating Objects

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      Pages 105-125

  6. Flow Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Flow Control

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      Pages 129-132

    3. Examples of Flow Control

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      Pages 133-143

    4. The Functions ifelse() and switch()

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      Pages 145-150
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About this book

The R Quick Syntax Reference is a handy reference book detailing the intricacies of the R language. Not only is R a free, open-source tool, R is powerful, flexible, and has state of the art statistical techniques available. With the many details which must be correct when using any language, however, the R Quick Syntax Reference makes using R easier.

Starting with the basic structure of R, the book takes you on a journey through the terminology used in R and the syntax required to make R work. You will find looking up the correct form for an expression quick and easy. With a copy of the R Quick Syntax Reference in hand, you will find that are able to use the multitude of functions available to the R user and are even able to write your own functions to explore and analyze data.

  • Takes you through learning R, from download to statistical analysis.
  • Clears the confusion around object types and how to use and convert the types.
  • Tells you how to search for statistical techniques using the R help pages.

About the author

Margot Tollefson is a self-employed consulting statistician residing in the tiny town of Stratford in the corn and soybean fields of north-central Iowa.She started using the S-Plus language in the early 1990s and was happy to switch to R about ten years ago. Margot enjoys writing her own functions in R - to do plots and simulations, as well as to implement custom modeling and use published statistical methods. She earned her graduate degrees in statistics from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

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