25 Recipes for Getting Started with R: Excerpts from the R Cookbook (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781449303235)

R is a powerful tool for statistics and graphics, but getting started with this language can be frustrating. This short, concise book provides beginners with a selection of how-to recipes to solve simple problems with R. Each solution gives you just what you need to know to use R for basic statistics, graphics, and regression.

You'll find recipes on reading data files, creating data frames, computing basic statistics, testing means and correlations, creating a scatter plot, performing simple linear regression, and many more. These solutions were selected from O'Reilly's R Cookbook, which contains more than 200 recipes for R that you'll find useful once you move beyond the basics.

Author: Paul Teetor
ISBN-10: 1449303234
ISBN-13: 9781449303235
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2011
Pages: 58
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.80w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 282