Although there are currently a wide variety of software packages suitable for the modern statistician, R has the triple advantage of being comprehensive, widespread, and free. Published in 2008, the second edition of Statistiques avec R enjoyed great success as an R guidebook in the French-speaking world. Translated and updated, R for Statistics includes a number of expanded and additional worked examples.
Organized into two sections, the book focuses first on the R software, then on the implementation of traditional statistical methods with R.
Focusing on the R software, the first section covers:
- Basic elements of the R software and data processing
- Clear, concise visualization of results, using simple and complex graphs
- Programming basics: pre-defined and user-created functions
The second section of the book presents R methods for a wide range of traditional statistical data processing techniques, including:
- Regression methods
- Analyses of variance and covariance
- Classification methods
- Exploratory multivariate analysis
- Clustering methods
- Hypothesis tests
After a short presentation of the method, the book explicitly details the R command lines and gives commented results. Accessible to novices and experts alike, R for Statistics is a clear and enjoyable resource for any scientist.
Datasets and all the results described in this book are available on the book's webpage at http://www.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/RforStat
Section 4.2 on the apply family of functions and related functions for matrices, arrays, and data frames is by far the most friendly and helpful introduction to the subject that I have seen. ? All datasets, along with the R-code in the book, are available on the website for the text. ? If you are not a trained programmer but you aspire to write code that is efficient and perhaps, from time to time, clever, then this book is a fine place for you to start learning R.-Homer S. White, MAA Reviews, January 2013
[T]he book is accessible for statisticians of all levels and areas of expertise as well as for novice and advanced R users. ? I recommend it for anyone who wants to learn about the why and how of the most commonly employed statistical methods and their extensions.-Irina Kukuyeva, Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 51, November 2012
