Getting Started with RStudio
John Verzani
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Getting Started with RStudio
by John Verzani
Copyright © 2011 John Verzani. All rights reserved.
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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
1. Overview, Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What is R? 1
What is an IDE? 2
Why RStudio? 3
Using RStudio 4
Desktop Version 4
Server Version 5
Which Workspace? 7
Projects 7
Which R? 7
Layout of the Components 8
Keyboard Shortcuts 8
The Options Dialog 9
Installing RStudio 9
Updating RStudio 11
2. Case Study: Data Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Using Projects 14
Reading in a Data File 14
Tab Key Completion 16
Workspace Component 18
Using the Right Class to Store Data 19
Data Cleaning 20
Using the Code Editor to Write R Scripts 21
Using Add-On Packages 22
Graphics 23
Command History 24
All Finished, for Now 25
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