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By Tilman M. Davies
The Book of R is an interactive introduction to the essentials of R programming and statistics.
“You must see this epic work…a game changer.”
—Kirk Borne, Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton“Extremely well written with excellent explanations and examples, this book fully accomplishes the goal of providing the reading with both the programming and statistical skills required to become proficient with this language. I am nothing short of amazed at the consistent quality and clarity of the text and the utility of the exercises.”
—Computerworld
The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you’ll find everything you need to begin using R effectively for statistical analysis.
You’ll start with the basics, like how to handle data and write simple programs, before moving on to more advanced topics, like producing statistical summaries of your data and performing statistical tests and modeling. You’ll even learn how to create impressive data visualizations with R’s basic graphics tools and contributed packages, like ggplot2 and ggvis, as well as interactive 3D visualizations using the rgl package.
Dozens of hands-on exercises (with downloadable solutions) take you from theory to practice, as you learn:
Combining detailed explanations with real-world examples and exercises, this book will provide you with a solid understanding of both statistics and the depth of R’s functionality. Make The Book of R your doorway into the growing world of data analysis.
July 2016, 832 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-651-5
Preface
PART I THE LANGUAGE
1 Getting Started
2 Numerics, Arithmetic, Assignment, and Vectors
3 Matrices and Arrays
4 Non-numeric Values
5 Lists and Data Frames
6 Special Values, Classes, and Coercion
7 Basic Plotting
8 Reading and Writing Files
PART II PROGRAMMING
9 Calling Functions
10 Conditions and Loops
11 Writing Functions
12 Exceptions, Timings, and Visibility
PART III STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
13 Elementary Statistics
14 Basic Data Visualization
15 Probability
16 Common Probability Distributions
PART IV STATISTICAL TESTING AND MODELING
17 Sampling Distributions and Confidence
18 Hypothesis Testing
19 Analysis of Variance
20 Simple Linear Regression
21 Multiple Linear Regression
22 Linear Model Selection and Diagnostics
PART V ADVANCED GRAPHICS
23 Advanced Plot Customization
24 Going Further with the Grammar of Graphics
25 Defining Colors and Plotting in Higher Dimensions
26 Interactive 3D Plots (AVAILABLE NOW)
APPENDICES
A Installing R and Contributed Packages
B Working with RStudio (AVAILABLE NOW)
Bibliography
View the detailed Table of Contents (PDF)
View the Index (PDF)
“I’ve been looking for a book like this for some time. It fills some holes in my course content that my own book doesn’t address.”
—insideBIGDATA
“I recommend this book to both beginners, as a good introduction to basic statistics and R, and to intermediate users as a desktop reference to assist in performing day-to-day analysis.”
—One R Tip a Day
“Overall, The Book of R is an excellent reference for novice data analysts and for students being introduced to statistical programming tools.”
—Harry J. Foxwell, ACM’s Computing Reviews
“The book is therefore addressing two audiences with different needs – coders who might need help with understanding statistical concepts and statisticians of one breed or another who want to learn how to code. Satisfying both groups is a big ask, but Tilman Davies pulls it off.”
—Network Security Newsletter
“Davies’ book is perhaps the most comprehensive explanation of the core R language in print, and an excellent introduction to using R for statistical programming.”
—Oliver Keyes, Sociotechnical Systems researcher
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