R Programming By Example

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to R, covers the R basics you need to understand the rest of the examples. It is not meant to be a thorough introduction to R. Rather, it's meant to give you the very basic concepts and techniques you need to quickly get started with the three examples contained in the book, and which I introduce next.

This book uses three examples to showcase R's wide range of functionality. The first example shows how to analyze votes with descriptive statistics and linear models, and it is presented in Chapter 2, Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics and Chapter 3, Predicting Votes with Linear Models.

Chapter 2, Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics, shows how to programatically create hundreds ...