November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
12h 21m
English
book
Programming Skills for Data Science: Start Writing Code to Wrangle, Analyze, and Visualize Data with R, First Edition
by Joel Ross, Michael Freeman
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Index
Symbols
, (comma)
data frame syntax, 122
function syntax, 69
key-value pair syntax, 191
" (double quotes), character data syntax, 61
' (single quotes), character data syntax, 61
.. (double dot), moving up directory, 14
. (single dot), referencing current folder, 14
| (pipe)
directing output, 20
pipe table, 48
! (exclamation point), Markdown image syntax, 47
# (pound/hashtag symbol)
$ (dollar notation)
accessing data frames, 122
accessing list elements, 97–98
%>% (pipe operator), dplyr package, 141–142
() (parentheses)
function syntax, 70
Markdown hyperlink syntax, 46
* (asterisk wildcard)
loading entire table from database, 173
using wildcards with files, 17–18
? (question mark), query parameter syntax, 184
[] (single-bracket ...
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