R Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach 1st edition

Publisher Marketing: R Recipes is your handy problem-solution reference for learning and using the popular R programming language for statistics and other numerical analysis. Packed with hundreds of code and visual recipes, this book helps you to quickly learn the fundamentals and explore the frontiers of programming, analyzing and using R. R Recipes provides textual and visual recipes for easy and productive templates for use and re-use in your day-to-day R programming and data analysis practice. Whether you're in finance, cloud computing, big or small data analytics, or other applied computational and data science - R Recipes should be a staple for your code reference library. What you'll learn Tips and tricks for making the migration to R smooth and seamlessCode recipes for I/O, data structures, transformations, strings, dates and moreHow to use graphics and visualization in RUsing R for probability, statistics, hypothesis tests, linear regression time series and moreHow to write practical code and templates for finance and big data analyticsCode for doing numerics or numerical analysis, beyond just statistical programming Who this book is for If you re new to R, then R Recipes will help get you started. If you re an experienced data programmer, then it will remind you as well as expand upon your knowledge base; so, you ll get the job done faster and learn more about R in the process."

Contributor Bio:  Pace, Larry Dr. Larry Pace is a statistics author and educator, as well as a consultant. He lives in the upstate area of South Carolina in the town of Anderson. He is a professor of statistics, mathematics, psychology, management, and leadership. He has programmed in a variety of languages and scripting languages including R, Visual Basic, JavaScript, C##, PHP, APL, and in a long-ago world, Fortran IV. He writes books and tutorials on statistics, computers, and technology. He has also published many academic papers, and made dozens of presentations and lectures. He has consulted with Compaq Computers, AT&T, Xerox Corporation, the U. S. Navy, and International Paper. He has taught at Keiser University, Argosy University, Capella University, Ashford University, Anderson University (where he was the chair of the behavioral sciences department), Clemson University, Louisiana Tech University, LSU in Shreveport, the University of Tennessee, Cornell University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Georgia.