IDG Contributor Network: Book review -- The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics

by Tilman M. Davies, no starch press, 2016

You might not have ever heard of the programming language R but, if you're doing data analysis, it might be just the language you need. And this particular book on R is one that is likely to teach you everything you might need to know. Yes, I mean everything.

A full two inches thick and nearly 800 pages long, The Book of R promises to teach you everything you need to be productive in using this language – that includes the basic syntax of the language, programming techniques, statistics and probability, testing and modeling, and graphics along with how to install the language and related packages on your system.

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