R in a Nutshell by Joseph Adler

Summary: Decent introduction to R

I have bought R in a Nutshell some time ago (1-st edition) and I was pleased with it. It is very decent introduction to R. I am using R casually for doing server logs analysis, mostly. And from my point of view, a person who doesn’t speak R fluently, this book is very handy. I have requested 2-nd edition mostly from the mere curiosity. I wanted to know how book have changed.

You will find few minor shifts here, some chapters were moved and some of them were split or merged. However, the content remained quality remained at the same level. Book covers most recent release of R (at least when it comes to Mac OS, I can’t tell for the other systems). There are few new things I have learned. RStudio and ggplot2 are among them. As I said, I don’t follow all the recent news in the “R world” thus, reading about these two was a big surprise for me and big plus for my simple tasks done with R.

I would recommend this book for R newbies. If you have never ever worked with R but looking to start your journey with it this is a good start. Contrary, if you have already done some stuff with R and you are looking for straightforward solutions I’d suggest heading towards R Cookbook. Anyway, I think this book is a really decent introduction to R.

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For R Cookbook, go here:
Amazon (in Books): R Cookbook (O’Reilly Cookbooks)
Amazon (Kindle): R Cookbook (O’Reilly Cookbooks)