If you have basic programming skills and do any kind of data analysis, you need R in your toolkit. This book teaches you how to be productive with this important programming language for statistics by covering everything about R you need to know, including: Data gathering from different sources such as web scraping and databases Data transformation/manipulation that can save you hours Visualization that provides a great way of showing insights into datasets Modelling that shows just how many different analyses can be done in R

Richard Cotton

是一位通晓化学安全及健康的数据科学家，开发过很多能让非专业用户访问统计模型的工具。他开发了很多R包，如assertive（用于检查变量的状态）和sig（用于确保功能具有合理的API）。他也是The Damned Liars公司的统计学顾问。