Using R and RStudio for Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics

This book is choc full of examples on how to do exactly what you want to do. From standard statistical analyses to modern packages designed to make data wrangling quite easy, the examples help lead the readers through the various tasks. A great reference for someone who wants help remembering syntax and available functions. A great text for someone who wants to sit down, get their hands dirty, and learn to use R. Going through the book and examples will make you more than proficient at using R to run whatever analyses you need.

Sadly, I agree with the "bad reference pretending to be a tutorial" comment from another reviewer. This book is a list of individual "how to" notes concerning R actions, and that's not a bad thing, but the title is very misleading, and the price is high for such a book. This may be helpful for someone already conversant in the subjects, to help them with the odd task here and there that they've forgotten how to do, but that's being generous. Also, there is very little RStudio stuff here.

With lots of R code and very short comments with no overall guiding text, this book looks like a hurried and bad help file of a R package. It teaches virtually nothing. It just shows and lets most of the work for the reader to figure out what is going on. Most of this book looks just like a long dictionary with bad explanations or, alternatively, just like lots of code with no supporting documentation or good comments. Chapters 1 and 2 are ok, but when it gets to the most interesting material on statistics from chapter 3 onwards, it gets lost, just listing statistical functions in R, one after the other, and pretending to bring them together under a subject. One of the worse books on R I have ever seen. It competes with the book "R for Everyone" that has the same bad style of listing code with no real explanation or structured context to follow with. Too bad, because It has some of the latest libraries and lots of interesting material, but just so poorly covered.