This book is designed to be a concise guide to R. It’s not intended to be a book about statistics or an exhaustive guide to R. In this book, I tried to show all the things that R can do and to give examples showing how to do them. This book is designed to be a good desktop reference.
I wrote this book because I like R. R is fun and intuitive in ways that other solutions are not. You can do things in a few lines of R that could take hours of struggling in a spreadsheet. Similarly, you can do things in a few lines of R that could take pages of Java code (and hours of Java coding). There are some excellent books on R, but I couldn’t find an inexpensive book that gave an overview of everything you could do in R. I hope this book helps you use R.
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