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Try R: Code School for Beginners


 
  
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The new "Try R Code School" lets you learn R at your own pace and earn badges for each chapter.


Try R R is among the top tools for data mining and data science, due to its a highly powerful statistical and visualization capabilities, and very community which created many analytics-related packages.

The new Try R Code School, sponsored by O'Reilly, lets you learn R at your own pace and earn badges for each chapter.

Contents:

  1. R Syntax: A gentle introduction to R expressions, variables, and functions
  2. Vectors: Grouping values into vectors, then doing arithmetic and graphs with them
  3. Matrices: Creating and graphing two-dimensional data sets
  4. Summary Statistics: Calculating and plotting some basic statistics: mean, median, and standard deviation
  5. Factors: Creating and plotting categorized data
  6. Data Frames: Organizing values into data frames, loading frames from files and merging them
  7. Working With Real-World Data: Testing for correlation between data sets, linear models and installing additional packages


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