Analyzing Baseball Data with R

2Introduction to R

Contents

1. 2.1 Introduction
2. 2.2 Installing R and RStudio
3. 2.3 Vectors
   1. 2.3.1 Career of Warren Spahn
   2. 2.3.2 Vectors: defining and calculations
   3. 2.3.3 Vector functions
   4. 2.3.4 Vector index and logical variables
4. 2.4 Objects and Containers in R
   1. 2.4.1 Character data and matrices
   2. 2.4.2 Factors
   3. 2.4.3 Lists
5. 2.5 Collection of R Commands
   1. 2.5.1 R scripts
   2. 2.5.2 R functions
6. 2.6 Reading and Writing Data in R
   1. 2.6.1 Importing data from a file
   2. 2.6.2 Saving datasets
7. 2.7 Data Frames
   1. 2.7.1 Introduction
   2. 2.7.2 Manipulations with data frames
   3. 2.7.3 Merging and selecting from data frames
8. 2.8 Packages
9. 2.9 Splitting, Applying, and Combining Data
   1. 2.9.1 Using sapply
   2. 2.9.2 Using ddply in the plyr package
10. 2.10 Getting Help
11. 2.11 Further Reading
12. 2.12 Exercises

2.1 Introduction

In this chapter, ...