R in Action, Third Edition: Data analysis and graphics with R and Tidyverse

This is the best book I've seen on learning the Statistical Programming Language R, and I'm an experienced programmer.

I've used R in Action for many years. Author does a good job introducing R and the tidyverse. The tidyverse is the main set of packages users need for data science. I highly recommend this book if you are just getting started, even for an intermediate user such as myself, it's a great resource.

Just what my review title says. This book is an excellent and clearly written introduction to working with the R language. There are many step by step examples that start at the beginning with installing R. That said, the book itself is rather flimsy and arrived with a bent back cover and some crumpled pages. If the book itself weren’t so excellent, I’d return it for a refund.

Great book that gets you started with R. The author takes the time to guide you through the basics of data visualizations using R standard and the ggplot2 library, clearly distinguishing which graphs are best for which types of data, and basic statistical computations such as distribution, hypothesis testing, nonparametric tests and so one. Advanced methods and visualization are covered as well such as Regression and Bootstrapping. All code examples build on each other so you're not faced with a nasty block of code you can't read too well.I feel this book assumes you have familiarity with statistics. Math is left out--which is fine--and the author instead approaches stats intuitively. It's best to have a basic knowledge of statistics, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, and regression since he doesn't go in depth into these matters. In other words, if you've never done stats in your life, have no idea what regression is, etc, I wouldn't depend on this book to teach you that. If you know what regression or ANOVA is used for, or bootstrapping, but need application clarification for your job, this book does just that.Best of all, the book is fun! I highly recommend this book.

This book is well written, comprehensive, and easy to understand. I highly recommend it for anyone who uses R and Tidyverse.

The content is great, but the shipping is not: the book is very damaged, the cover is fold, the first page is torn and my ebook code is missing.

Dr. Robert I. Kabacoff's R in Action has been my go-to R reference book since its first edition came out in 2011. I reviewed the second edition here on Amazon in 2015 and have been relying on that book since then. I have never used R frequently enough to get really good at it. Yet, when I do need to work with it, I have grabbed my now well-used copy of R in Action, Second Edition, and found the instructions and examples needed to complete my tasks. (It's still a good book for getting started with R, by the way.) That said, R in Action, Third Edition, is a real eye-opener for me. I didn't realize the program had gained so many enticing new features and capabilities over the past seven years. Kabacoff's updated book includes "extensive coverage of tidyverse approaches to data management and analysis." At least nine of the book's chapters and three of its appendices have been expanded and updated. Some corrections and changes also have been made to examples and descriptions carried over from the second edition. In all, more than 200 pages of new material are presented. Some of the new sections include how to use RStudio "for programming, debugging, report writing, and package creation..." The package creation descriptions also cover "how to share and promote your packages through CRAN, GitHub, and software-generated websites." The latest edition is a hefty book, now nearly 600 pages in print form. Many of us today are dealing with new surges of data, and we need better ways to manipulate it, format it, display it, and manage it for the most efficient storage and retrieval. The tidyverse approach to data management and data analysis has its critics and its advocates. I don't know enough about it yet to render an opinion. But whether you are an R newcomer, an intermediate user, or someone who uses R extensively each day, you should consider having R in Action, Third Edition, within easy reach. You'll likely need it in the months and years ahead.My thanks to Manning Publications for sending a review copy.

I bought the ebook directly from the publisher, Manning. I especially liked the examples and the practical approach. I have used and taught R for a number of years, and I found the examples useful and will be using some of them in class, too. However, I would not recommend this book for absolute beginners: the author has opted to base his exposition on RStudio, ggplot2 and "Tidyverse" packages like dplyr, instead of sticking to base R and introducing powerful high performing packages like data.table. I do not follow his reasoning ("most powerful and popular"), certainly not when it comes to learning R in the first place. Unfortunately, many authors rewrite their books because they feel that the "Tidyverse" and its approach is the way of the future. I have a more sceptical position towards these developments (please check out "TidyverseSceptic" on GitHub for more details). Hence, for beginners, I think the 2nd edition of this book is to be preferred over the 3rd edition. The 2nd edition is just brilliant, and I am glad that I obtained it from Manning for free when buying the 3rd edition. In practice, I often use the "livebook" version of the book (another innovation by Manning - see picture).

O conteúdo do livro é excelente, serve tanto como uma introdução moderna ao R, incluindo ggplot2 e o "Tidyverse", quanto como introdução ao tratamento estatístico de dados, incluindo modelos lineares generalizados, PCA, clustering e classificação. A qualidade, no entanto, é uma bosta: o livro é impresso em papel vagabundo e com tinta fraca, parece que foi impresso em cinza ao invés de preto. Talvez eu devolva o livro e imprima eu mesmo as minhas páginas numa impressora a laser de boa qualidade.

Contiene los temas introductorio a R, el código aún está actual, lo único pésimo es su impresión, necesitas mucha luz para leer legible mente ya que la calidad de la hoja y tinta es pésima

The book is great.But after receiving the book I found out, that some pages had damages.Some pages had holes and other had folds.The book were not packed or wrapped with care for the product.

I used the first edition of this work to learn R. I Found it a pleasant textbook, methodical, exhaustive and clearly written. As such it was a book that I thoroughly enjoyed. In the meantime, much time has passed; R has evolved and many novel things were introduced. Perhaps the most important of these is the Tidyverse family of libraries. This third edition has grown to include all these new developments. It has become encyclopaedic in size and can be considered a standard work on the subject. If one has to choose one book for work or study, this is the one. The clarity of exposition found in this work is also due to the numerous clear and beautiful illustrations. Apart from a panoramic view of the R programming language it is also a great help in implementing most statistical techniques and to solve inherent programming problems. Recommended to Statisticians and Data analysts.

En general, me gustó el tamaño, formato y estructura general del libro.Únicamente que el papel es de pésima calidad, las portadas son muy delgadas que se deforman con la simple manipulación normal, igualmente las hojas del contenido. Con estas consideraciones, el libro es muy caro.Pude comprar otros dos libros por este precio.