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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

A function in R is a set of instructions to do a certain task based on the input provided. There are lots of default functions in R to carry out data processing, analysis, and visualization tasks. However, you might require your own customized function to carry out a task that is not available within the default functions, for example, you are proposing a new algorithm to detect extreme values from a dataset and the algorithm is not yet available as a default function or not yet available as an R library. In this situation, you must write your own function, giving all the instructions to your algorithm to carry out extreme value detection task.

There are default R functions available to carry out descriptive statistical analysis such as calculating mean, standard deviation, median, and other similar values. However, you may be in a situation where you want all the...

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