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R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
Contributor(s): Adler, Joseph (Author)

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ISBN: 144931208X     ISBN-13: 9781449312084
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
OUR PRICE: $56.99  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Mathematical & Statistical Software
- Computers | Databases - Data Mining
- Computers | Data Modeling & Design
Dewey: 519.502
Series: In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6" W x 9" L (2.05 lbs) 721 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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If you're considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. You'll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from medicine, business, and sports.

Updated for R 2.14 and 2.15, this second edition includes new and expanded chapters on R performance, the ggplot2 data visualization package, and parallel R computing with Hadoop.

  • Get started quickly with an R tutorial and hundreds of examples
  • Explore R syntax, objects, and other language details
  • Find thousands of user-contributed R packages online, including Bioconductor
  • Learn how to use R to prepare data for analysis
  • Visualize your data with R's graphics, lattice, and ggplot2 packages
  • Use R to calculate statistical fests, fit models, and compute probability distributions
  • Speed up intensive computations by writing parallel R programs for Hadoop
  • Get a complete desktop reference to R

Contributor Bio(s): Adler: -

Joseph Adler has many years of experience in data mining and data analysis at companies including DoubleClick, American Express, and VeriSign. He graduated from MIT with an Sc.B and M.Eng in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT. He is the inventor of several patents for computer security and cryptography, and the author of Baseball Hacks. Currently, he is a senior data scientist at LinkedIn.Adler, Joseph: -

Joseph Adler has many years of experience in data mining and data analysis at companies including DoubleClick, American Express, and VeriSign. He graduated from MIT with an Sc.B and M.Eng in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT. He is the inventor of several patents for computer security and cryptography, and the author of Baseball Hacks. Currently, he is a senior data scientist at LinkedIn.


 
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