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Modern R Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern R Programming Cookbook Recipes to simplify your statistical applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129054
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaynal Abedin Jaynal Abedin
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring R and its Libraries FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Structures in R 3. Writing Customized Functions 4. Conditional and Iterative Operations 5. R Objects and Classes 6. Querying, Filtering, and Summarizing 7. R for Text Processing 8. R and Databases 9. Parallel Processing in R

Introduction

In the current internet era, the amount of data is increasing at a rapid speed. There are various forms of data we produce every day. Text data is one of the most important sources of data for uncovering knowledge. In the medical field, biomedical text mining is one of the most important applications of text data for studying diseases, genes, protein relations, and drug discovery. In the financial market, the microblog, such as Twitter, plays an important role in uncovering people's sentiment about the market. Also, every day, a large number of scientific research articles are being published in various journals, and this is also a great source of text data. By doing text mining on scientific research articles, one can easily identify current research trends, important keywords, and links between entities.

Before actually performing the text mining, you should...

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