Beginning R – The Statistical Programming Language Book

Our book Beginning R: The Statistical Programming Language is designed to help you learn R. Use Beginning R to support your R training and learn R programming as well as R statistics, R graphics and the R language itself.

Beginning R: The Statistical Programming Language is a book that helps you learn R using simple statistical examples, showing how R operates in a user–friendly context. Both students and workers in fields that require extensive statistical analysis will find this book helpful as they learn to use R for simple summary statistics, hypothesis testing, creating graphs, regression, and much more. It covers formula notation, complex statistics, manipulating data and extracting components, and elements of programming.

R is fast becoming the de facto standard for statistical computing and analysis in science, business, engineering, and related fields. Using Beginning R: The Statistical Programming Language will give you a great foundation in data science. The book will provide you with the tools you need for data analysis and graphical presentation of data, using R, a powerful and flexible Open Source programming language and statistical environment.

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Book Overview - Beginning R

Our book Beginning R: The Statistical Programming Language is designed as a foundation in data science and data analysis. R is a programming language and statistical environment, a powerful and flexible Open Source solution for many applications in data analysis and data visualisation. R is used widely by business, academia, and government in many different fields.

Beginning R is a book to help you learn R and the R language. The book uses simple statistical examples, showing how R operates in a user–friendly context. Both students and workers in fields that require extensive statistical analysis will find this book helpful as they learn to use R for simple summary statistics, hypothesis testing, creating graphs, regression, and much more. It covers formula notation, complex statistics, manipulating data and extracting components, and elementary programming.

In Beginning R, you will learn R statistics for data analysis as well as R graphics for data visualisation. Use Beginning R for your R training and start to unlock the power and flexibility of R for statistical programming. Beginning R offers anyone who needs to perform statistical analysis the information necessary to use R with confidence.

Essentials Covered in this Book

In our book Beginning R: The Statistical Programming Language you’ll learn the essentials of data science using R, a powerful and flexible Open Source statistical environment.

Use Beginning R to learn R and the essentials of the R language. In the book you’ll learn R programming for data analysis, and data visualisation. Use Beginning R as part of your R training for the essentials in:

  • Making and importing data.
  • Handling data.
  • R data objects.
  • R statistics for data summary.
  • R statistics for data analysis and hypothesis testing.
    • Differences tests
    • Correlation
    • Association tests
  • R graphics for data visualisation.
  • Analysis of Variance and complicated data analysis.
  • Regression modelling and predictive analysis.
  • Data manipulation and rearrangement.
  • The essentials of R programming.
    • Custom R scripts.
    • Custom R functions.

Beginning R is a book that offers anyone who needs to perform statistical analysis the information necessary to use R with confidence.

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