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Hugely successful and popular text presenting an extensive and comprehensive guide for all R users The R language is recognized as one of the most powerful and flexible statistical software packages, enabling users to apply many statistical techniques that would be impossible without such software to help implement such large…

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An authoritative tome on R. This book is the ultimate reference guide, heavy on statistical methods from the simple to the advanced. Of the 29 chapters, only the first five chapters or so have R syntactical and programming skills as their main focus; the remaining content highlights the many and varied statistical techniques R is capable of. I think this is a fantastic book to have on the shelf for people who are likely to need R and its contributed packages for a variety of different statistical analyses, but might not know where to initially start for any given statistical…

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