The Essential R Reference

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Pub. Date: 2012-11-19
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

An essential library of basic commands you can copy and paste into R Although the powerful and open-source statistical programming language R is rapidly growing in popularity, it requires that you type in commands at the keyboard rather than use a mouse, which makes using the software somewhat complicated. But there is a shortcut, and that's where this unique book comes in. A companion book to Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics, this practical reference is a library of basic R commands that you can copy and paste into R to perform many types of statistical analyses. Whether you're in technology, science, medicine, business, or engineering, you can quickly turn to your topic in this handy book and find the commands you need. Comprehensive command reference for the R programming language and a companion book to Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics Combines elements of a dictionary, glossary, and thesaurus for the R language Provides easy accessibility to the commands you need, by topic, which you can cut and paste into R as needed Covers getting, saving, examining, and manipulating data; statistical test and math; and all the things you can do with graphs Also includes a collection of utilities that you'll find useful Simplify the complex statistical R programming language with The Essential R Reference. .

Author Biography

Dr. Mark Gardener is an ecologist, lecturer, and writer who discovered R while doing data analysis for his doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology. He conducts courses in R, ecology, and data analysis for a variety of organizations. Mark is also the author of Beginning R: The Statistical Programming Language, a Wrox book published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. xv
Datap. 1
Data Typesp. 3
Types of Datap. 3
Altering Data Typesp. 16
Testing Data Typesp. 18
Creating Datap. 22
Creating Data from the Keyboardp. 22
Creating Data from the Clipboardp. 29
Adding to Existing Datap. 29
Importing Datap. 39
Importing Data from Text Filesp. 39
Importing Data from Data Filesp. 46
Saving Datap. 49
Saving Data as a Text File to Diskp. 50
Saving Data as a Data File to Diskp. 59
Viewing Datap. 61
Listing Datap. 61
Data Object Propertiesp. 74
Selecting and Sampling Datap. 107
Sorting and Rearranging Datap. 117
Summarizing Datap. 121
Summary Statisticsp. 121
Summary Tablesp. 136
Distribution of Datap. 146
Density Functionsp. 148
Probability Functionsp. 152
Quantile Functionsp. 158
Random Numbersp. 161
Math and Statisticsp. 167
Mathematical Operationsp. 169
Mathp. 169
Logicp. 188
Complex Numbersp. 194
Trigonometryp. 202
Hyperbolic Functionsp. 206
Matrix Mathp. 206
Summary Statisticsp. 223
Simple Summary Statsp. 223
Tests of Distributionp. 235
Differences Testsp. 240
Parametric Testsp. 241
Non-parametricp. 252
Correlations and Associationsp. 267
Correlationp. 267
Association and Goodness of Fitp. 275
Analysis of Variance and Linear Modelingp. 283
ANOVAp. 284
Linear Modelingp. 300
Miscellaneous Methodsp. 317
Clusteringp. 318
Ordinationp. 324
Time Seriesp. 331
Non-linear Modeling and Optimizationp. 333
Graphicsp. 347
Making Graphsp. 348
Types of Graphsp. 349
Saving Graphsp. 389
Adding to Graphsp. 398
Adding Datap. 398
Adding Linesp. 404
Adding Shapesp. 416
Adding Textp. 422
Adding Legendsp. 432
Graphical Parametersp. 436
Using the par Commandp. 437
Altering Colorp. 439
Altering Axis Parametersp. 446
Altering Text Parametersp. 453
Altering Line (and Box) Parametersp. 456
Altering Plot Marginsp. 459
Altering the Graph Windowp. 462
Utilitiesp. 475
Installp. 476
Installing Rp. 477
Installing Packagesp. 477
Using Rp. 480
Using the Programp. 480
Additional Packagesp. 486
Programmingp. 490
Managing Functionsp. 491
Saving and Running Scriptsp. 498
Conditional Controlp. 502
Returning Resultsp. 507
Error Trappingp. 525
Constantsp. 527
Indexp. 529
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