R Quick Syntax Reference

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4302-6640-2
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 3362 g

The R Quick Syntax Reference is a handy reference book detailing the intricacies of the R language. Not only is R a free, open-source tool, R is powerful, flexible, and has state of the art statistical techniques available. With the many details which must be correct when using any language, however, the R Quick Syntax Reference makes using R easier.
Starting with the basic structure of R, the book takes you on a journey through the terminology used in R and the syntax required to make R work. You will find looking up the correct form for an expression quick and easy. With a copy of the R Quick Syntax Reference in hand, you will find that are able to use the multitude of functions available to the R user and are even able to write your own functions to explore and analyze data.

- Takes you through learning R, from download to statistical analysis.

- Clears the confusion around object types and how to use and convert the types.

- Tells you how to search for statistical techniques using the R help pages.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tollefson, Margot

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Mathematische & Statistische Software

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Downloading R and Setting R Up in a File System
- The R Prompt
- Assignments and Operators
- Modes of Objects
- The Classes and Types

- Packaged Functions
- User Defined Functions

- How to Use a Function

- Inputting or Creating Data

- Outputting Data and Output

- Manipulating Objects

- Flow Conditioners

- Condition Based Functions

- Some Examples of Conditioning

- Some Common Functions

- The Packages base, stats, and graphics

- Tricks of the Trade

Über Autor(innen)

Margot Tollefson is a self-employed consulting statistician residing in the tiny town of Stratford in the corn and soybean fields of north-central Iowa.She started using the S-Plus language in the early 1990s and was happy to switch to R about ten years ago. Margot enjoys writing her own functions in R - to do plots and simulations, as well as to implement custom modeling and use published statistical methods. She earned her graduate degrees in statistics from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.