Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
R Programming By Example

You're reading from   R Programming By Example Practical, hands-on projects to help you get started with R

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292542
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Omar Trejo Navarro Omar Trejo Navarro
Author Profile Icon Omar Trejo Navarro
Omar Trejo Navarro
Omar Trejo Navarro Omar Trejo Navarro
Author Profile Icon Omar Trejo Navarro
Omar Trejo Navarro
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to R 2. Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics FREE CHAPTER 3. Predicting Votes with Linear Models 4. Simulating Sales Data and Working with Databases 5. Communicating Sales with Visualizations 6. Understanding Reviews with Text Analysis 7. Developing Automatic Presentations 8. Object-Oriented System to Track Cryptocurrencies 9. Implementing an Efficient Simple Moving Average 10. Adding Interactivity with Dashboards 11. Required Packages

Putting it all together into high-quality code

Now that we have the fundamentals about analyzing data with descriptive statistics, we're going to improve our code's structure and flexibility by breaking it up into functions. Even though this is common knowledge among efficient programmers, it's not a common practice among data analysts. Many data analysts would simply paste the code we have developed all together, as-is, into a single file, and run it every time they wanted to perform the analysis. We won't be adding new features to the analysis. All we'll do is reorder code into functions to encapsulate their inner-workings and communicate intention with function names (this substantially reduces the need for comments).

We'll focus on producing high-quality code that is easy to read, reuse, modify, and fix (in case of bugs). The way we actually do...

You have been reading a chapter from
R Programming By Example
Published in: Dec 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788292542
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime