A Survivor’s Guide to R: An Introduction for the Uninitiated and the Unnerved

Length: 488 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication Date: 2014-05-07
ISBN-10: 1483346730
ISBN-13: 9781483346731
Sales Rank: #150093 (See Top 100 Books)

Focusing on developing practical R skills rather than teaching pure statistics, Dr. Kurt Taylor Gaubatz’s A Survivor’s Guide to R provides a gentle yet thorough introduction to R. The book is structured around critical R tasks, and focuses on applied knowledge, rather than abstract concepts. Gaubatz’s easy-to-read approach helps students with little or no background in statistics or programming to develop real-world R skills through straightforward coverage of R objects and functions. Focusing on real-world data, the challenges of dataset construction, and the use of R’s powerful graphing tools, the guide is written in an accessible, sympathetic, even humorous style that ensures students acquire functional R skills they can use in their own projects and carry into their work beyond the classroom.

Cover Page
Halftitle
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Brief Contents
Detailed Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Getting Started
2 A Sample Session
3 Object Types in R
4 Getting Your Data Into R
5 Reviewing and Summarizing Data
6 Sorting and Selecting Data
7 Transforming Data
8 Text Operations
9 Working With Date and Time Data
10 Data Merging and Aggregation
11 Dealing With Missing Data
12 R Graphics I: The Built-In Plots
13 R Graphics II: The Boring Stuff
14 R Graphics III: The Fun Stuff–Text
15 R Graphics IV: The Fun Stuff–Shapes
16 From Here to Where?
Appendix A. Installing R and Related Programs
Appendix B. Statistical Commands
Appendix C. R Packages
Appendix D. Some Style Guidelines
References
Data Sources
Main Index
Index of R Commands and Expressions
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