Table of Contents
Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction to R Programming

Objectives

1.1 Overview of R

1.2 Installation of R

1.3 Installation and Loading of R Packages

1.4 R – Basic Syntax

1.5 Data Types and Objects

1.6 Variables

1.7 Constants

1.8 Comments

1.9 Debugging in R

Exercises

Chapter 2: Data Definitions and Categorisation

Objectives

2.1 Overview of Data

2.2 Sources of Data

2.3 Big Data

2.4 Data Categorisation

2.5 Data Cube

Exercises

Chapter 3: Operators

Objectives

3.1 Introduction to Operators

3.2 Arithmetic Operators

3.3 Relational Operators

3.4 Logical Operators

3.5 Miscellaneous Operators

3.6 Precedence and Associativity of Operators

Exercises

Chapter 4: Control Statements and Functions

Objectives

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The if Statement

4.3 The for Statement

4.4 The while Loop

4.5 The repeat and break Statements

4.6 The next Statement

4.7 The switch Statement

4.8 Functions

4.9 Some Solved Examples

Exercises

Chapter 5: Interfacing with R

Objectives

5.1 Introduction to Extending R

5.2 Interfacing R with C/C++

5.3 Interfacing R with Python

Exercises

Chapter 6: Vectors

Objectives

6.1 Overview of Vectors

6.2 Creating a Vector

6.3 Accessing the Elements of a Vector

6.4 Vector Manipulation and Vector Arithmetic

6.5 Deleting a Vector

6.6 Vector Element Sorting

Exercises

Chapter 7: Matrices

Objectives

7.1 Creating a Matrix

7.2 Coercion of Matrix Elements

7.3 Matrix Subsetting

7.4 Matrix Operations

7.5 Combining Matrices

7.6 Special Matrices

7.7 Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues

7.8 Arrays

Exercises

Chapter 8: Lists

Objectives

8.1 Introduction to Lists

8.2 Creating a List

8.3 General List Operations

8.4 Accessing the Elements of a List

8.5 Manipulating the Elements of a List

8.6 Merging Lists

8.7 Applying Functions to a List

8.8 Recursive List

8.9 Sorting and Searching

Exercises

Chapter 9: Data Frames

Objectives

9.1 Introduction to Data Frames

9.2 Creating a Data Frame

9.3 General Operations on Data Frames

9.4 Expanding a Data Frame

9.5 Applying Functions to Data Frames

Exercises

Chapter 10: Factors and Tables

Objectives

10.1 Introduction to Factors

10.2 Creating a Factor

10.3 Factor Levels

10.4 Summarising a Factor

10.5 Ordered Factors

10.6 Converting Factors

10.7 Common Functions Used with Factors

10.8 Introduction to Tables and Creating Tables

10.9 Table-related Functions

10.10 Cross-tabulation

Exercises

Chapter 11: Regular Expressions and String Manipulation in R

Objectives

11.1 Introduction to Regular Expressions

11.2 Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching

11.3 String Manipulation

11.4 Solved Examples of Regular Expressions

Exercises

Chapter 12: S3 and S4 Classes and Objects

Objectives

12.1 Introduction to S3 and S4 Classes and Objects

12.2 S3 Classes

12.3 S4 Classes

Exercises

Chapter 13: Accessing Input and Output

Objectives

13.1 Introduction to Files and Input/Output

13.2 Accessing the Keyboard and Monitor

13.3 File Functions

Exercises

Chapter 14: Graphs in R Programming

Objectives

14.1 Introduction to Graphs

14.2 Creating Graphs

14.3 Histograms and Density Plots

14.4 Dot Plots

14.5 Bar Plots

14.6 Line Charts

14.7 Pie Charts

14.8 Box Plots

14.9 Scatter Plots

14.10 Saving Graphs to a File

14.11 Creating Three-Dimensional Plots

Exercises

Chapter 15: R Apply Family

Objectives

15.1 Introduction to the Apply Family

15.2 The apply() Function

15.3 The lapply() Function

15.4 The sapply() Function

15.5 Slicing a Vector

15.6 The tapply() Function

15.7 The rep() Function

15.8 The mapply() Function

15.9 The vapply() Function

Exercises

Chapter 16: The R Profiler

Objectives

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Using the system.time() Function

16.3 Timing Longer Expressions

16.4 Using the R Profiler

16.5 Using the summaryRprof() Function

Exercises

Chapter 17: Descriptive Statistics using R

Objectives

17.1 Introduction to Statistical Analysis in R

17.2 Measures of Central Tendency or Location

17.3 Measures of Dispersion

17.4 Measures of Shape

Exercises

Chapter 18: Probability

Objectives

18.1 Introduction to Probability

18.2 Probability and Statistics

18.3 Random Variables

18.4 Probability Distribution

Exercises

Chapter 19: Sampling Distributions

Objectives

19.1 Introduction to Sampling Distributions

19.2 Central Limit Theorem

19.3 Sampling Distribution of X2

19.4 Student’s T Distribution

19.5 F Distribution

Exercises

Chapter 20: Correlation and Regression Analysis

Objectives

20.1 Introduction to Correlation and Regression Analysis

20.2 Correlation Analysis

20.3 Regression Analysis

Exercises

Chapter 21: Statistical Inference

Objectives

21.1 Introduction to Statistical Inference

21.2 Hypothesis Testing

Exercises

Chapter 22: Analysis of Variance

Objectives

22.1 Introduction to Analysis of Variance

22.2 Implementing Analysis of Variance

22.3 Variants of ANOVA

22.4 ANOVA in R

Exercises

Chapter 23: Machine Learning Algorithms in R

Objectives

23.1 Introduction to Machine Learning Algorithms

23.2 Naive Bayes Classifier

23.3 Decision Tree Classifier

23.4 The k-Nearest Neighbour Method

23.5 Clustering Techniques: K-means Clustering

23.6 Association Rule Mining

Exercises

Chapter 24: Text Mining in R: Sentiment Analysis

Objectives

24.1 Introduction to Text Mining

24.2 Text Preprocessing

24.3 Sentiment Analysis

24.4 N-grams

Exercises

Index