Using the open source R language, you can build powerful statistical models to answer many of your most challenging questions. R has traditionally been difficult for non-statisticians to learn, and most R books assume far too much knowledge to be of help. R for Everyone, Second Edition, is the solution.
Drawing on his unsurpassed experience teaching new users, professional data scientist Jared P. Lander has written the perfect tutorial for anyone new to statistical programming and modeling. Organized to make learning easy and intuitive, this guide focuses on the 20 percent of R functionality you’ll need to accomplish 80 percent of modern data tasks.
Lander’s self-contained chapters start with the absolute basics, offering extensive hands-on practice and sample code. You’ll download and install R; navigate and use the R environment; master basic program control, data import, manipulation, and visualization; and walk through several essential tests. Then, building on this foundation, you’ll construct several complete models, both linear and nonlinear, and use some data mining techniques.
By the time you’re done, you won’t just know how to write R programs, you’ll be ready to tackle the statistical problems you care about most.
Features
Updated with new chapters on the caret package, network analysis, and Shiny
New coverage of RBokeh, Plotly, json libraries, dplyr, tidyr, tests, reading Excel data package, and more
Packed with hands-on practice opportunities and realistic, downloadable code examples
By an author with unsurpassed experience teaching statistical programming and modeling to novices
For every potential R user: programmers, data scientists, DBAs, marketers, quants, scientists, policymakers, and many others
Content Table:
Chapter 1: Getting R
Chapter 2: The R Environment
Chapter 3: R Packages
Chapter 4: Basics of R
Chapter 5: Advanced Data Structures
Chapter 6: Reading Data into R
Chapter 7: Statistical Graphics
Chapter 8: Writing R functions
Chapter 9: Control Statements
Chapter 10: Loops, the Un-R Way to Iterate
Chapter 11: Group Manipulation
Chapter 12: Faster Group Manipulation with dplyr
Chapter 13: Iterating with purrr
Chapter 14: Data Reshaping
Chapter 15: Reshaping Data in the Tidyverse
Chapter 16: Manipulating Strings
Chapter 17: Probability Distributions
Chapter 18: Basic Statistics
Chapter 19: Linear Models
Chapter 20: Generalized Linear Models
Chapter 21: Model Diagnostics
Chapter 22: Regularization and Shrinkage
Chapter 23: Nonlinear Models
Chapter 24: Time Series and Autocorrelation
Chapter 25: Clustering
Chapter 26: Model Fitting with Caret
Chapter 27: Reproducibility and Reports with knitr
Chapter 28: Rich Documents with RMarkdown
Chapter 29: Interactive Dashboards with Shiny
Chapter 30: Building R Packages
Appendix A: Real-Life Resources
Author info
Jared P. Lander is the Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, a New York-based data science firm that specializes in statistical consulting and training services; the organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup—the world’s largest R meetup—and the New York R Conference; and an adjunct professor of statistics at Columbia University. With an M.A. from Columbia University in statistics and a B.S. from Muhlenberg College in mathematics, he has experience in both academic research and industry. Very active in the data community, Jared is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities, and meetups around the world. His writings on statistics can be found at jaredlander.com and his work has been featured in publications such as Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
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