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　 DESCRIPTION R is a powerful language for statistical computing and graphics that can handle virtually any data-crunching task. It runs on all important platforms and provides thousands of useful specialized modules and utilities. This makes R a great way to get meaningful information from mountains of raw data. R in Action, Second Edition is language tutorial focused on practical problems. Written by a research methodologist, it takes a direct and modular approach to quickly give readers the information they need to produce useful results. Focusing on realistic data analyses and a comprehensive integration of graphics, it follows the steps that real data analysts use to acquire their data, get it into shape, analyze it, and produce meaningful results that they can provide to clients. RETAIL SELLING POINTS Step-by-step guide to practical data analysis Gives quick access to the R language Written by seasoned researcher Uses over 130 graphics AUDIENCE This book is for social scientists, medical and pharmaceutical researchers, professors and students in quantitative fields, data analysts, data mining specialists, and statistical programmers who have a sense of what they want to do, but not how to do it in R. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY R is a powerful language for statistical computing and graphics that can handle virtually any data-crunching task. It runs on all important platforms and provides thousands of useful specialized modules and

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Built specifically for statistical computing and graphics, the R language, along with its amazing collection of libraries and tools, is one of the most powerful tools you can use to tackle data analysis for business, research, and other data-intensive domains. This revised and expanded third edition of R in Action covers the new tidy verse approach to data analysis and R's state-of-the-art graphing capabilities with the ggplot2 package. R in Action, Third Edition teaches you to use the R language, including the popular tidy verse packages, through hands-on examples relevant to scientific, technical, and business developers. Focusing on practical solutions to real-world data challenges, R expert RobKabacoff takes you on a crash course in statistics, from dealing with messy and incomplete data to creating stunning visualisations. The R language is the most powerful platform you can choose for modern data analysis. Free and open source, R's community has created thousands of modules to tackle challenges from data-crunching to presentation. R's graphical capabilities are also state-of-the-art, with a comprehensive and powerful feature set available for data visualization. R runs on all major operating systems and is used by businesses, researchers, and organizations worldwide.

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