Data Munging with R: A Beginner's Guide to R and Rstudio - Softcover

Carroll, Jonathan

 
9781617294594: Data Munging with R: A Beginner's Guide to R and Rstudio

Synopsis

Data Munging with R shows readers how to take raw data and transform it for use in computations, tables, graphs, and more. Whether they already have some programming experience or they’re just a spreadsheet whiz looking for a more powerful data manipulation tool, this book will help programmers get started.

 

Readers will discover the ins and outs of using the data-oriented R programming language and its many task-specific packages. By the end, readers will be master mungers, with a robust, reproducible workflow and the skills to use data to strengthen their conclusions!

 

Key Features

• Practical examples

• Step-by-step guide

• Introduction to R

 

Audience

If you have beginner programming skills or you're comfortable with writing spreadsheet formulas, you have everything you need to get the most out of this book.

 

About the technology

R is a statistical programming language in that it was made for the purpose of performing statistics calculations, but it has grown to be so much more through community contributions. As a general purpose language, it is flexible enough to work with almost any data you can interact with; stored or streaming, images, text, or numbers.

 

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Dr Jonathan Carroll holds a PhD from the University of Adelaide in

theoretical astrophysics, currently working in statistical modelling. He

contributes packages to R, is a frequent contributor of answers on

StackOverflow and an avid science communicator.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.