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Beyond Spreadsheets with R
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Beyond Spreadsheets with R

by Jonathan Carroll
January 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
352 pages
9h 8m
English
Manning Publications
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1 Introducing data and the R language

This chapter covers

  • Why data analysis is important
  • How to make your analysis robust
  • How and why R works with data
  • RStudio: Your interface to R

You have your data, and you want to start doing something awesome with it, right? Brilliant! I promise you, we’ll get to that as soon as we can. But first, let’s take a step back. Telling you to dive right in now would be like handing you a pile of different timbers, pointing you toward the workshop, and telling you to make some furniture. It’s a good idea to first understand both the materials and the tools you’re about to use.

We’ll go through what data means in general — to you and to those who may potentially inherit your data — because if you don’t fully ...

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