Publisher's Synopsis
R Language Walk-through for Very Busy People is a short book designed to get readers up and running quickly on the basics of the R Language. It features a lengthy selection of R's most used functions and packages in an applied context in which readers learn R interactively. From scalars and vectors to matrices and data-frames, from simple indexes to slicing, sub-setting and aggregating, this book teaches the fundamentals in a condensed yet very readable text. The book also features several special topics such as graphics, getting data, date-times, time series and basic programming.