Start programming with R

When it comes to data analysis, data science and data mining, R is one of the most important and used programming languages. This book is meant as an introduction to R and is thought to be a quick reference guide for those who want to start programming in this language. The topics we will deal with are: – R structures, how to manipulate them and create them – learning to set the work environment on R – installing and recalling a package – create and extract data sub-sets – remove duplicate data – import data to R (In .csv, excel, .txt and .sav) – learn how to manipulate data on R – learn basic statistical functions on R – creating charts on R, with basic functions and with ggplot2 – create and export reports. This introductory book to R allows any reader who has never programmed to easily learn and understand the basics of R, starting from understandable examples.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction and structures
Chapter 2 Setting up your working environment
Chapter 3 Importing and exporting data to R
Chapter 4 Packages and functions for data preprocessing and managing
Chapter 5 Basic Statistics with R
Chapter 6 Introduction to graphic representations in R
Chapter 7 Creating and exporting reports with R