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33 Excellent Free Books to Learn all about R

Last Updated on November 23, 2023

11. Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus O. Wilke

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Fundamentals of Data Visualization is a primer on making informative and compelling figures. The book is very purposefully designed to not be a programming book.

This practical book takes you through many commonly encountered visualization problems, and provides guidelines on how to turn large datasets into clear and compelling figures.

What visualization type is best for the story you want to tell? How do you make informative figures that are visually pleasing? It’s these types of questions that this book tackles.

The book’s source code is hosted on GitHub, at https://github.com/clauswilke/dataviz.

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12. The R Inferno by Patrick Burns

R InfernoThe R Inferno is billed as an essential guide to the trouble spots and oddities of R.

The book shares a lot of useful information and maintains the reader’s interest.

The book also provides many useful techniques and tips for reducing memory usage, improving performance, and avoiding errors in computational analysis.

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13. Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

Advanced-RAdvanced R is designed primarily for R users who want to improve their programming skills and understanding of the language. It aims to help the reader quickly become an effective R programmer.

The book develops the necessary skills to produce quality code that can be used in a variety of circumstances. You will learn:

– The fundamentals of R, including standard data types and functions.
– Functional programming as a useful framework for solving wide classes of problems.
– The positives and negatives of metaprogramming.
– How to write fast, memory-efficient code. That’s particular important as R is not the fastest language.

This book is targeted at intermediate R programmers, and programmers from other languages who are learning R.

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14. R Packages by Hadley Wickham

R-Packages

Yet another quality text from the pen of Hadley. R Packages shows you how to bundle reusable R functions, sample data, and documentation together by applying the author’s package development philosophy.

Targeted at developers, data scientists, and programmers with various backgrounds, this book starts you with the basics and shows you how to improve your package writing over time.

The code and text for the book is published on GitHub.

Hadley will be releasing a second edition of the book.

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15. Text Mining with R by Julia Silge & David Robinson

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Text Mining with R provides examples and resources to help you get up to speed with dplyr, broom, ggplot2, and other tidy tools from the R ecosystem. Tidy datasets are easy to manipulate, model and visualize, and have a specific structure.

Text Mining with R shows you how to manipulate, summarize, and visualize the characteristics of text, sentiment analysis, tf-idf, and topic modeling. Along with tidy data methods, you’ll also examine several beginning-to-end tidy text analyses on data sources from Twitter to NASA datasets.

This excellent introductory book is published under an open source license. The authors also host a GitHub repository at https://github.com/dgrtwo/tidy-text-mining.

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Next page: Page 4 – Data Analysis for the Life Sciences and more books

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – R for Data Science and more books
Page 2 – R Graphics Cookbook and more books
Page 3 – Fundamentals of Data Visualization and more books
Page 4 – Data Analysis for the Life Sciences and more books
Page 5 – An Introduction To R and more books
Page 6 – Modern Statistics for Modern Biology and more books
Page 7 – A Little Book of R for Biomedical Statistics and more books


All books in this series:

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AwkVersatile language designed for pattern scanning and processing language
BashShell and command language; popular both as a shell and a scripting language
BASICBeginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
CGeneral-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level language
C++General-purpose, portable, free-form, multi-paradigm language
C#Combines the power and flexibility of C++ with the simplicity of Visual Basic
ClojureDialect of the Lisp programming language
ClojureScriptCompiler for Clojure that targets JavaScript
COBOLCommon Business-Oriented Language
CoffeeScriptTranscompiles into JavaScript inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell
CoqDependently typed language similar to Agda, Idris, F* and others
CrystalGeneral-purpose, concurrent, multi-paradigm, object-oriented language
CSSCSS (Cascading Style Sheets) specifies a web page’s appearance
DGeneral-purpose systems programming language with a C-like syntax
DartClient-optimized language for fast apps on multiple platforms
DylanMulti-paradigm language supporting functional and object-oriented coding
ECMAScriptBest known as the language embedded in web browsers
EiffelObject-oriented language designed by Bertrand Meyer
ElixirRelatively new functional language running on the Erlang virtual machine
ErlangGeneral-purpose, concurrent, declarative, functional language
F#Uses functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming methods
FactorDynamic stack-based programming language
ForthImperative stack-based programming language
FortranThe first high-level language, using the first compiler
GoCompiled, statically typed programming language
GroovyPowerful, optionally typed and dynamic language
HaskellStandardized, general-purpose, polymorphically, statically typed language
HTMLHyperText Markup Language
IconWide variety of features for processing and presenting symbolic data
JArray programming language based primarily on APL
JavaGeneral-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, high-level language
JavaScriptInterpreted, prototype-based, scripting language
JuliaHigh-level, high-performance language for technical computing
KotlinMore modern version of Java
LabVIEWDesigned to enable domain experts to build power systems quickly
LaTeXProfessional document preparation system and document markup language
LispUnique features - excellent to study programming constructs
LogoDialect of Lisp that features interactivity, modularity, extensibility
LuaDesigned as an embeddable scripting language
MarkdownPlain text formatting syntax designed to be easy-to-read and easy-to-write
Objective-CObject-oriented language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to C
OCamlThe main implementation of the Caml language
PascalImperative and procedural language designed in the late 1960s
PerlHigh-level, general-purpose, interpreted, scripting, dynamic language
PHPPHP has been at the helm of the web for many years
PostScriptInterpreted, stack-based and Turing complete language
PrologA general purpose, declarative, logic programming language
PureScriptSmall strongly, statically typed language compiling to JavaScript
PythonGeneral-purpose, structured, powerful language
QMLHierarchical declarative language for user interface layout - JSON-like syntax
RDe facto standard among statisticians and data analysts
RacketGeneral-purpose, object-oriented, multi-paradigm, functional language
RakuMember of the Perl family of programming languages
RubyGeneral purpose, scripting, structured, flexible, fully object-oriented language
RustIdeal for systems, embedded, and other performance critical code
ScalaModern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based language
SchemeA general-purpose, functional language descended from Lisp and Algol
ScratchVisual programming language designed for 8-16 year-old children
SQLAccess and manipulate data held in a relational database management system
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SwiftPowerful and intuitive general-purpose programming language
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ValaObject-oriented language, syntactically similar to C#
VHDLHardware description language used in electronic design automation
VimLPowerful scripting language of the Vim editor
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