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Mastering RStudio: Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

Harness the power of RStudio to create web applications, R packages, markdown reports and pretty data visualizations

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|Dec 2015
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Harness the power of RStudio for R Statistical Computing to create web applications, R packages, markdown reports, and amazing data visualizations

Key Features

  • Discover the multi-functional use of RStudio to support your daily work with R code
  • Learn to create stunning, meaningful, and interactive graphs and learn to embed them into easy communicable reports using multiple R packages
  • Develop your own R packages and Shiny web apps to share your knowledge and collaborate with others.

Book Description

RStudio helps you to manage small to large projects by giving you a multi-functional integrated development environment, combined with the power and flexibility of the R programming language, which is becoming the bridge language of data science for developers and analyst worldwide. Mastering the use of RStudio will help you to solve real-world data problems.

This book begins by guiding you through the installation of RStudio and explaining the user interface step by step. From there, the next logical step is to use this knowledge to improve your data analysis workflow. We will do this by building up our toolbox to create interactive reports and graphs or even web applications with Shiny. To collaborate with others, we will explore how to use Git and GitHub and how to build your own packages to ensure top quality results. Finally, we put it all together in an interactive dashboard written with R.

What you will learn

  • Discover the RStudio IDE and details about the user interface
  • Communicate your insights with R Markdown in static and interactive ways
  • Learn how to use different graphic systems to visualize your data
  • Build interactive web applications with the Shiny framework to present and share your results
  • Understand the process of package development and assemble your own R packages
  • Easily collaborate with other people on your projects by using Git and GitHub
  • Manage the R environment for your organization with Shiny server
  • Apply your obtained knowledge of R development to create a real-world dashboard solution

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at R developers and analysts who wish to do R statistical development while taking advantage of RStudio's functionality to ease their development efforts. R programming experience is assumed as well as being comfortable with R's basic structures and a number of functions.

Table of Contents

  1. The R Studio IDE: an Overview
  2. Communicate your Work: Introducing R Markdown
  3. R Lesson I: Graphics Systems
  4. Shiny: a Web-App Framework for R
  5. Further Topic in R Markdown: Interactive Documents
  6. R Lesson II: Writing Robust Functions
  7. Your First R Package
  8. Collaborate with Git and Git Hub
  9. R for your Organization: Managing the R Studio Server
  10. Extending RStudio
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-255-4
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 348