R for Data Science, 2nd Edition

Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at RStudio and a member of the R Foundation. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) that make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr), data ingest (readr, readxl, haven), and principled software development (roxygen2, testthat, devtools). He is also a writer, educator, and frequent speaker promoting the use of R for data science.

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Professor of the Practice and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Statistical Science and an affiliated faculty in the Computational Media, Arts, and Cultures program at Duke University as well as Educator at RStudio. Mine works on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education. At RStudio, Mine’s work focuses primarily on education for open-source R packages as well as building resources and tools for educators teaching statistics and data science with R and RStudio. Mine has authored four undergraduate statistics textbooks as part of the OpenIntro projects, teaches the popular MOOC Statistics with R on Coursera and is the developer and maintainer of Data Science in a Box. Mine is a Fellow of the ASA and an Elected Member of the ISI as well as the recipient of the 2021 Robert V. Hogg Award For Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics, the 2018 Harvard Pickard Award, and the 2016 ASA Waller Education Award.

Garrett Grolemund is the author of Hands-On Programming with R and co-author of R for Data Science and R Markdown: The Definitive Guide. He is Director of Learning at RStudio and holds a Ph.D. in Statistics, but specializes in teaching. He’s taught people how to use R at over 50 government agencies, small businesses, and multi-billion dollar global companies; and he’s designed RStudio’s training materials for R, Shiny, R Markdown and more. Garrett wrote the popular lubridate package for dates and times in R and creates the RStudio cheat sheets.