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R Programming By Example

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292542
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Omar Trejo Navarro Omar Trejo Navarro
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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

Cleaning and setting up the data

Setting up the data for this example is straightforward. We will load the data, correctly label missing values, and create some new variables for our analysis. Before we start, make sure the data.csv file is in the same directory as the code you're working with, and that your working directory is properly setup. If you don't know how to do so, setting up your working directory is quite easy, you simply call the setwd() function passing the directory you want to use as such. For example, setwd(/home/user/examples/) would use the /home/user/examples directory to look for files, and save files to.

If you don’t know how to do so, setting up your working directory is quite easy, you simply call the setwd() function passing the directory you want to use as such. For example, setwd(/home/user/examples/) would use the /home/user/examples...

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R Programming By Example
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ISBN-13: 9781788292542
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