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A Survivor's Guide to R
An Introduction for the Uninitiated and the Unnerved
- Kurt Taylor Gaubatz - Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA
May 2014 | 488 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Focusing on developing practical R skills rather than teaching pure statistics, Dr. Kurt Taylor Gaubatz’s A Survivor’s Guide to R provides a gentle yet thorough introduction to R. The book is structured around critical R tasks, and focuses on applied knowledge, rather than abstract concepts. Gaubatz’s easy-to-read approach helps students with little or no background in statistics or programming to develop real-world R skills through straightforward coverage of R objects and functions. Focusing on real-world data, the challenges of dataset construction, and the use of R’s powerful graphing tools, the guide is written in an accessible, sympathetic, even humorous style that ensures students acquire functional R skills they can use in their own projects and carry into their work beyond the classroom.
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: A Sample Session
Chapter 3: Object Types in R
Chapter 4: Getting Your Data Into R
Chapter 5: Reviewing and Summarizing Data
Chapter 6: Sorting and Selecting Data
Chapter 7: Transforming Data
Chapter 8: Text Operations
Chapter 9: Working With Date And Time DataDates in R
Chapter 10: Data Merging And Aggregation
Chapter 11: Dealing with Missing Data
Chapter 12: R Graphics I: The Built-in Plots
Chapter 13: R Graphics II: The Boring Stuff
Chapter 14: R Graphics III: The Fun Stuff--Text
Chapter 15: R Graphics IV: The Fun Stuff--Shapes
Chapter 16 from Here to Where?
My university and department has yet to allow me to teach R instead of SPSS. However, this is a terrific text, and I hope to see an updated version soon when it becomes clear that we should be teaching and using R instead of, or in conjunction with, SPSS.
Psychology, Mount St Vincent University
August 21, 2015
Very useful for supporting learning of R. Good introduction and useful for reference.
Department of Sociology, Cambridge University
June 25, 2015
This is a helpful book for students doing data analysis with R.
Soziologisches Seminar, University of Lucerne
February 3, 2015
A "Survivor's guide to R" is a nice introduction for the more technical details of R which are essential to make fully use of R's statistical capacities. It is useful for beginners of R who have little or no experience with programming languages. It is easy and nice to read (at least as such a technical topic can be).
Biostatistics and Computing, King's College London
December 17, 2014
good book but not for undergraduates
Health and Human Sciences Program, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
October 22, 2014
