Getting Started with RStudio

Dive into the RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for using and programming R, the popular open source software for statistical computing and graphics. This concise book provides new and experienced users with an overview of RStudio, as well as hands-on instructions for analyzing data, generating reports, and developing R software packages.

The open source RStudio IDE brings many powerful coding tools together into an intuitive, easy-to-learn interface. With this guide, you’ll learn how to use its main components—including the console, source code editor, and data viewer—through descriptions and case studies. Getting Started with RStudio serves as both a reference and introduction to this unique IDE.

• Use RStudio to provide enhanced support for interactive R sessions
• Clean and format raw data quickly with several RStudio components
• Edit R commands with RStudio’s code editor, and combine them into functions
• Easily locate and use more than 3,000 add-on packages in R’s CRAN service
• Develop and document your own R packages with the code editor and related components
• Create one-click PDF reports in RStudio with a mix of text and R output

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Learning the R language can be overwhelming. R is exceptionally powerful with many, many options and features. To make getting started easy, RStudio is a shell that makes life more sturctured and simple. Getter Started with RStudio is a short, but intensive guide to the RStudio shell.This book provides an introduction to creating your own package, managing the many R packages available, and creating R programs. While many R users simply use R interactively, the ability to write R programs lets you address more complicated analysis tasks — and retain your solution as a program that can be applied to new datasets.
If you are new to R, consider using the RStudio shell and this book to guide you through it.