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Rhonda Brazler
R is a powerful tool for statistics, graphics, and statisticalprogramming. It is used by tens of thousands of people daily to performserious statistical analyses. It is a free, open source system whoseimplementation is the collective accomplishment of many intelligent,hard-working people. There are more than 10,000 available add-on packages, and Ris a serious rival to all commercial statistical packages.
This book is full of how-to recipes, each of which solves a specificproblem. The recipe includes a quick introduction to the solutionfollowed by a discussion that aims to unpack the solution and give yousome insight into how it works. We know these recipes are useful and weknow they work, because we use them ourselves.
The range of recipes is broad. It starts with basic tasks before movingon to input and output, general statistics, graphics, and linearregression. Any significant work with R will involve most or all ofthese areas.
The book is not a tutorial on R, although you will learn something bystudying the recipes. It is not a reference manual, but it does containa lot of useful information. It is not a book on programming in R,although many recipes are useful inside R scripts.
Each recipe presents one way to solve a particular problem. Of course,there are likely several reasonable solutions to each problem. When weknew of multiple solutions, we generally selected the simplest one. Forany given task, you can probably discover several alternative solutionsyourself. This is a cookbook, not a bible.
In particular, R has literally thousands of downloadable add-onpackages, many of which implement alternative algorithms and statisticalmethods. This book concentrates on the core functionality availablethrough the basic distribution combined with several important packages knowncollectively as the tidyverse.
The tidyverse is a set of packages that work in harmony because they sharecommon data representations and API design. The tidyverse package is designedto make it easy to install and load core packages from the tidyverse in asingle command. The best place to learn about all the packages in thetidyverse and how they fit together is R for Data Science.
Another example, taken from statistics, is the complexity surroundingthe semantics of statistical hypothesis testing. Using the strictlanguage of probability theory would obscure the practical applicationof some tests, so we use more colloquial language when describing eachstatistical test. See the introduction to Chapter 9 for more about how hypothesis tests arepresented in the recipes.
Our goal is to make the power of R available to a wide audience bywriting readably, not formally. We hope that experts in their respectivefields will understand if our terminology is occasionally informal.
The base distribution of R has frequent and planned releases, but thelanguage definition and core implementation are stable. The recipes inthis book should work with any recent release of the base distribution.
Some recipes have platform-specific considerations, and we have carefullynoted them. Those recipes mostly deal with software issues, such asinstallation and configuration. As far as we know, all other recipes willwork on all three major platforms for R: Windows, macOS, and Linux/Unix.
Reading blogs is a great way to learn about R and stay abreast ofleading-edge developments. There are surprisingly many such blogs,so we recommend following two blog-of-blogs:R-bloggers, created by Tal Galili, andPlanetR. By subscribing to their RSSfeeds, you will be notified of interesting and useful articles fromdozens of websites.
For learning statistics, a great choice is Using R for Introductory Statisticsby John Verzani (Chapman & Hall/CRC).It teaches statistics and R together, giving you the necessary computer skillsto apply the statistical methods.
Used for program listings, as well as within paragraphs to refer toprogram elements such as variable or function names, databases, packages, datatypes, environment variables, statements, and keywords.
With gratitude we thank the R community in general and the R Core Team inparticular. Their selfless contributions are enormous. The world ofstatistics is benefiting tremendously from their work. The R Studio Community Discussion participants were very helpful in workshopping ideas around how to explain many things. And the staff and leadership of R Studio were supportive in so many little and big ways. We owe them a debt of gratitude for all they have given back to the R community.
Rebecca: I used to volunteer at/go to a Food Bank and appreciated the accurate information about food safety labels and expiration dates. How did you research the food safety guidelines and tips included in the cookbook?
And this may sound silly, but I also think monochromatic work is often stronger as a whole. The reader can absorb information more easily due to a lower cognitive load, and the artists have one less intensive step to worry about. (Not that b&w art is easier by any margin, but everything becomes much more complicated when color is added!)
I am the primary author of the Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition. Thisedition of the cookbook is notable for it's full embrace of Python 3and focus on modern Python programming idioms. Recipes range fromsimple tips to help you write more elegant code to sophisticatedexamples involving some of the most advanced parts of the Pythonlanguage. Even though I've been programming Python for quite sometime, I learned quite a lot of new things writing this book--I thinkyou'll like it.
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