Mastering RStudio – Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

Preface

Data analysis, visualization, and the handling of complex statistical issues was reserved just for universities and very few organizations for a long time. In fact, an easy-to-use and free environment to make the concept of data analysis available to a broader audience was not available.

But in the early nineties, R saw the light of day, and since then, it has been on a meteoric rise. R has shaped the landscape of data science in recent years like no other programing language. Because of its open source nature, it became widely known and is often referred to as the lingua franca of data analysis. Another reason for this huge success is the availability of a sophisticated Integrated Development Environment (IDE) named RStudio.

The development ...