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R Programming Fundamentals

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Published in Sep 2018

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ISBN-13 9781789612998

Pages 206 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Kaelen Medeiros

Table of Contents (6) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to R

2. Data Visualization and Graphics

3. Data Management

4. Solutions

5. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Summary

We've covered a lot in this introductory chapter and have plenty more to do, but don't fret! We'll continue to use plenty of examples and activities throughout to help you remember what we're learning. Let's press forward on to the next chapter, where we'll begin to look at some data more closely and do some cleaning and data management, which is necessary to get us one step closer to modeling and analysis.

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Authors (1)

Kaelen Medeiros

Kaelen Medeiros is a content quality developer at DataCamp, where she works to improve course content and tracks quality metrics across the company. She also works as a data scientist/developer for HealthLabs, who develop automated methods for analyzing large amounts of medical data. She received her MS in biostatistics from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in 2016. Outside of work, she has one cat, listens to way too many podcasts, and enjoys running.

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