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R Recipes

A Problem-Solution Approach

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Authors:
  1. Larry A. Pace
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  • R Recipes is your handy problem-solution reference for learning and using the popular R programming language for statistics and other numerical analysis.
  • Packed with hundreds of code and visual recipes, this book helps you to quickly learn the fundamentals and explore the frontiers of programming, analyzing and using R.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Migrating to R: As Easy As 1, 2, 3

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 1-15

  3. Input and Output

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 17-26

  4. Data Structures

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 27-41

  5. Merging and Reshaping Datasets

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 43-56

  6. Working with Dates and Strings

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 57-66

  7. Working with Tables

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 67-78

  8. Summarizing and Describing Data

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 79-88

  9. Graphics and Data Visualization

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    Pages 89-105

  10. Probability Distributions

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    Pages 107-116

  11. Hypothesis Tests for Means, Ranks, or Proportions

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    Pages 117-141

  12. Relationships Between and Among Variables

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    Pages 143-155

  13. Contemporary Statistical Methods

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    Pages 157-166

  14. Writing Reusable Functions

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    Pages 167-181

  15. Working with Financial Data

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    Pages 183-199

  16. Dealing with Big Data

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 201-214

  17. Mining the Gold in Data and Text

    • Larry A. Pace
    Pages 215-236

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 237-242
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About this book

R Recipes is your handy problem-solution reference for learning and using the popular R programming language for statistics and other numerical analysis. Packed with hundreds of code and visual recipes, this book helps you to quickly learn the fundamentals and explore the frontiers of programming, analyzing and using R.

R Recipes provides textual and visual recipes for easy and productive templates for use and re-use in your day-to-day R programming and data analysis practice. Whether you're in finance, cloud computing, big or small data analytics, or other applied computational and data science - R Recipes should be a staple for your code reference library.

About the author

Dr. Larry Pace is a statistics author and educator, as well as a consultant. He lives in the upstate area of South Carolina in the town of Anderson. He is a professor of statistics, mathematics, psychology, management, and leadership. He has programmed in a variety of languages and scripting languages including R, Visual Basic, JavaScript, C##, PHP, APL, and in a long-ago world, Fortran IV. He writes books and tutorials on statistics, computers, and technology. He has also published many academic papers, and made dozens of presentations and lectures. He has consulted with Compaq Computers, AT&T, Xerox Corporation, the U.S. Navy, and International Paper. He has taught at Keiser University, Argosy University, Capella University, Ashford University, Anderson University (where he was the chair of the behavioral sciences department), Clemson University, Louisiana Tech University, LSU in Shreveport, the University of Tennessee, Cornell University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Georgia.

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