It doesn’t have to all be MOOCs and videos these days for learning. There’s still a place for a good book! We’re building up a series of books that help people learn the fundamentals of R.
Working with R
Working with R is the first book in the R Fundamentals series. The book introduces you to the core concepts of R and helps you be effective as soon as you start. It is the first in a series of books that will help you use R to achieve awesome things in your day job.
Get Working with RI wish this book had been available when I started learning R!
The book includes the following chapters:
- About R
- Why use R?
- Using RStudio
- Useful resources
- R data types
- Basic operations
- R objects
- Data manipulation
- R functions
- R packages
Steph’s writing has a very lively and engaging style that is a pleasure to read. Working with R is an excellent introduction into an important part of learning Data Science. Read it and enjoy learning.
Data Manipulation in R
Data Manipulation in R is the second book in the R Fundamentals series. The book introduces you to core data manipulation skills. Starting at the getting data into R, we focus on being able to analyse tabular data, and then write it back out to share.
Get Data Manipulation in RTurbo boost your data munging skills with this easy to read guide to the essential techniques. Includes some advanced nuggets of information I haven’t seen documented elsewhere. Highly recommended.
The book includes the following chapters:
- Getting data with R
- Data pipelines
- Filtering columns
- Filtering rows
- Working with names
- Rearranging your data
- Changing your data
- Working with dates
- Working with text
- Summarising data
- Combining datasets
- Reshaping data
- Getting data out of R
- Putting it all together
Great stuff. I learned lots of new things, including some advanced wrangling that I had not seen covered elsewhere. This book packs a lot in - covering all the essential requirements for day to day working with R. This book will definitely help those transitioning from spreadsheets to become proficient with R
Kindle Unlimited
We make the books available at a low price as we’re able to publish these ourselves. Additionally, all the books are available on Kindle Unlimited too. Being on Kindle Unlimited means you can read as many books as you want each month under a subscription model. Amazon offer free trials too so not only can you “Look Inside” a book, but you can read them for free too.
Other books
Tribal SQL
Get Tribal SQLRead Steph’s chapter on being better at reporting – get a solid overview of being a great analyst and what skills you need.
