Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible.
Authors Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund guide you through the steps of importing, wrangling, exploring, and modeling your data and communicating the results. You’ll get a complete, big-picture understanding of the data science cycle, along with basic tools you need to manage the details. Each section of the book is paired with exercises to help you practice what you’ve learned along the way.
You’ll learn how to:
- Wrangle—transform your datasets into a form convenient for analysis
- Program—learn powerful R tools for solving data problems with greater clarity and ease
- Explore—examine your data, generate hypotheses, and quickly test them
- Model—provide a low-dimensional summary that captures true "signals" in your dataset
- Communicate—learn R Markdown for integrating prose, code, and results
Table of Contents
1. Explore
Chapter 1 Data Visualization with ggplot2
Chapter 2 Workflow: Basics
Chapter 3 Data Transformation with dplyr
Chapter 4 Workflow: Scripts
Chapter 5 Exploratory Data Analysis
Chapter 6 Workflow: Projects
2. Wrangle
Chapter 7 Tibbles with tibble
Chapter 8 Data Import with readr
Chapter 9 Tidy Data with tidyr
Chapter 10 Relational Data with dplyr
Chapter 11 Strings with stringr
Chapter 12 Factors with forcats
Chapter 13 Dates and Times with lubridate
3. Program
Chapter 14 Pipes with magrittr
Chapter 15 Functions
Chapter 16 Vectors
Chapter 17 Iteration with purrr
4. Model
Chapter 18 Model Basics with modelr
Chapter 19 Model Building
Chapter 20 Many Models with purrr and broom
5. Communicate
Chapter 21 R Markdown
Chapter 22 Graphics for Communication with ggplot2
Chapter 23 R Markdown Formats
Chapter 24 R Markdown Workflow
