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DATA ANALYSIS/STATISTICAL SOFTWARE Hands-On Programming with R ISBN: 978-1-449-35901-0 US $39.99 CAN $41.99 “Hands-OnProgramming withRisfriendly, conversational,and active.It’sthenext-best thingtolearningR programmingfromme orGarrettinperson. Ihopeyouenjoyreading itasmuchasIhave.” —Hadley Wickham Chief Scientist at RStudio Twitter: @oreillymedia facebook.com/oreilly Learn how to program by diving into the R language, and then use your newfound skills to solve practical data science problems. With this book, you’ll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data objects, navigate R’s environment system, write your own functions, and use all of R’s programming tools. RStudio Master Instructor Garrett Grolemund not only teaches you how to program, but also shows you how to get more from R than just visualizing and modeling data. You’ll gain valuable programming skills and support your work as a data scientist at the same time. ■ Work hands-on with three practical data analysis projects based on casino games ■ Store, retrieve, and change data values in your computer’s memory ■ Write programs and simulations that outperform those written by typical R users ■ Use R programming tools such as if else statements, for loops, and S3 classes ■ Learn how to write lightning-fast vectorized R code ■ Take advantage of R’s package system and debugging tools ■ Practice and apply R programming concepts as you learn them Garrett Grolemund is a statistician, teacher, and R developer who works as a data scientist and Master Instructor at RStudio. Garrett received his PhD at Rice University, where his research traced the origins of data analysis as a cognitive process and identified how attentional and epistemological concerns guide every data analysis. Hands-On Programming with R Grolemund Garrett Grolemund Foreword by Hadley Wickham Hands-On Programming withR WRITE YOUR OWN FUNCTIONS AND SIMULATIONS DATA ANALYSIS/STATISTICAL SOFTWARE Hands-On Programming with R ISBN: 978-1-449-35901-0 US $39.99 CAN $41.99 “Hands-OnProgramming withRisfriendly, conversational,and active.It’sthenext-best thingtolearningR programmingfromme orGarrettinperson. Ihopeyouenjoyreading itasmuchasIhave.” —Hadley Wickham Chief Scientist at RStudio Twitter: @oreillymedia facebook.com/oreilly Learn how to program by diving into the R language, and then use your newfound skills to solve practical data science problems. With this book, you’ll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data objects, navigate R’s environment system, write your own functions, and use all of R’s programming tools. RStudio Master Instructor Garrett Grolemund not only teaches you how to program, but also shows you how to get more from R than just visualizing and modeling data. You’ll gain valuable programming skills and support your work as a data scientist at the same time. ■ Work hands-on with three practical data analysis projects based on casino games ■ Store, retrieve, and change data values in your computer’s memory ■ Write programs and simulations that outperform those written by typical R users ■ Use R programming tools such as if else statements, for loops, and S3 classes ■ Learn how to write lightning-fast vectorized R code ■ Take advantage of R’s package system and debugging tools ■ Practice and apply R programming concepts as you learn them Garrett Grolemund is a statistician, teacher, and R developer who works as a data scientist and Master Instructor at RStudio. Garrett received his PhD at Rice University, where his research traced the origins of data analysis as a cognitive process and identified how attentional and epistemological concerns guide every data analysis. Hands-On Programming with R Grolemund Garrett Grolemund Foreword by Hadley Wickham Hands-On Programming withR WRITE YOUR OWN FUNCTIONS AND SIMULATIONS Garrett Grolemund Hands-On Programming with R Hands-On Programming with R by Garrett Grolemund Copyright © 2014 Garrett Grolemund. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribooksonline.com). For more information, contact our corporate/ institutional sales department: 800-998-9938 or

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