The Book of R, 2nd Edition
A First Course in Programming and Statistics
$152.87
- Paperback
936 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2025
Summary
This long-awaited second edition folds years of updates into its beginner-friendly lessons on using R for data and statistical analysis.
The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you’ll find everything you need to begin writing programs in R.
You’ll start with the basics, like how…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781718503687 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1718503687 |
| Author: | Tilman M. Davies |
| Publisher: | No Starch Press,US |
| Imprint: | No Starch Press,US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 936 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.55kg |
| Dimensions: | 49mm x 236mm x 180mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A game changer.”—Kirk Borne, principal data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton
About The Author
Tilman M. Davies
Tilman M. Davies is an academic at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he teaches statistics at all university levels. He has been programming in R since the early 2000s and uses it in all of his courses. Davies has received multiple significant research grants for his methodological work in spatial statistics and in 2024 received the Littlejohn Award, the premier research award of the New Zealand Statistical Association.
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