Based on R version 3.4, this book will help you develop strong fundamentals when working with R by taking you through a series of full representative examples, giving you a holistic view of R. Author Omar Trejo Navarro starts from the basic concepts of R programming, and shows how to work efficiently with graphs, create publication-ready and interactive 3D graphs, and gain a better understanding of the data at hand.

The book also covers various methods to perform code profiling and performance enhancement with good programming practices, delegation, and parallelization.

Author: Omar Trejo Navarro
Publisher: Packt
Date: Dec 2017
Pages: 470
ISBN: 978-1788292542
Print: 1788292545
Kindle: B0742MT91G
Audience: people working with big data
Level: Intermediate
Category: Other Languages

• Discover techniques to leverage R’s features, and work with packages
• Perform a descriptive analysis and work with statistical models using R
• Work efficiently with objects without using loops
• Create diverse visualizations to gain better understanding of the data
• Understand ways to produce good visualizations and create reports for the results
• Read and write data from relational databases and REST APIs, both packaged and unpackaged
• Improve performance by writing better code, delegating that code to a more efficient programming language, or making it parallel

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