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How To Create a PDF of Your Plot - From 'R Graphics Cookbook'

By ggiles2 : 09 January 2013 - 11:35 AM
This excerpt is taken from Winston Chang's new title, R Graphics Cookbook Chapter 14 Broadly speaking, visualizations of data serve two purposes: discovery and communication. In the discovery pha...
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what kind of bird is on the R Cookbook?

Asked by slfisher : 17 December 2012 - 01:24 PM

Answered by Charles Crous : Dec 30 2012 06:08 AM
Hi, It's apparently a harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja). It's listed under the Colophon tab on the product page - http://shop.oreilly....780596809164.do Enjoy the new years. Regards, Charles full answer >
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How to Create a Bar Chart with R

By chco : 18 April 2011 - 04:01 PM
Should you want to create a bar chart while using R, the following excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication 25 Recipes for Getting Started with R will show you how. Use the barplot function. Th...
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How to Compute Basic Statistics with R

By chco : 05 April 2011 - 01:56 AM
Sometimes, when using R, you want to calculate basic statistics: mean, median, standard deviation, variance, correlation, or covariance. The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication 25 Reci...
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How to Import Data from External Files in R

By adfm : 16 June 2010 - 03:48 PM
There are many ways to grab external data in R. This excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell will show you just how versatile R can be when it comes to gathering data. One of the nicest thing...
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Basic Operations in R

By adfm : 27 January 2010 - 03:39 PM
If you're eager to learn more about R and want a taste of what it's like, here's an introduction to the basic operations in R from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell. Let’s get started using R....
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Alternative Ways to Run R

By adfm : 20 January 2010 - 12:10 PM
Beyond the standard implementation there are other ways to run R. This excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell lists some of the more popular open source projects implementing R. There are se...
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How to use R inside Microsoft Excel

By adfm : 20 January 2010 - 11:25 AM
Excel can be a safe comfort zone for some users, but sometimes you need access to more robust tools like R. Thankfully there's RExcel to bridge the gap. In this excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a N...
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Introducing the R Console

By adfm : 08 January 2010 - 05:26 PM
This excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell introduces the R console. If you use R, you'll spend most of your time interacting with the console. The R console is the most important tool for usin...
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Introducing the R Graphical User Interface

By adfm : 08 January 2010 - 04:20 PM
The following excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell introduces the R Graphical User Interface. This is helpful if you would like to know what the R GUI looks like on other operating systems. ...
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