| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 447 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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R Series |
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Chapman & Hall/CRC the R series (CRC Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An introduction to R graphics -- Traditional graphics. Simple usage of traditional graphics -- Customizing traditional graphics -- Grid graphics. Trellis graphics : the lattice package -- The grammar of graphics : the ggplot2 package -- The grid graphics model -- The grid graphics object model -- Developing new graphics functions and objects -- The graphics engine. Graphics formats -- Graphical parameters -- Graphics packages. Graphics extensions -- Plot extensions -- Graphics for categorical data -- Maps -- Node-and-edge graphs -- 3D graphics -- Dynamic and interactive graphics -- Importing graphics -- Combining graphics systems. |
| Summary |
R in Action is the first book to present both the R system and the use cases that make it such a compelling package for business developers. The book begins by introducing the R language, including the development environment. Focusing on practical solutions, the book also offers a crash course in practical statistics and covers elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data using features of R. About the Technology R is a powerful language for statistical computing and graphics that can handle virtually any data-crunching task. It runs on all important platforms and provides thousands of useful specialized modules and utilities. This makes R a great way to get meaningful information from mountains of raw data. About the Book R in Action is a language tutorial focused on practical problems. It presents useful statistics examples and includes elegant methods for handling messy, incomplete, and non-normal data that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods. And statistical analysis is only part of the story. You'll also master R's extensive graphical capabilities for exploring and presenting data visually. |
| Subject |
R (Computer program language)
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Statistics -- Data processing.
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Graphic methods -- Data processing.
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Statistics.
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Computer graphics.
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Statistics as Topic |
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Computer Graphics |
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Electronic Data Processing |
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R (Langage de programmation) |
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Statistique -- Informatique. |
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Méthodes graphiques -- Informatique. |
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Statistiques. |
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Infographie. |
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Informatique. |
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Statistique. |
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computer graphics. |
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statistics. |
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Statistics |
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Computer graphics |
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Graphic methods -- Data processing |
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R (Computer program language) |
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Statistics -- Data processing |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kabacoff, Robert. R in action. Shelter Island, NY : Manning, ©2011 9781935182399 (DLC) 2011276688 (OCoLC)609544307 |
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(pbk.) |
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(pbk.) |
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