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Re:Free Data Science Books by DarkTree on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:30AM (#10190994)
Anyone recommend any of the R books listed or know of any great R books for purchase?
Re:Free Data Science Books by larrydag on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:32AM (#10191008)
My favorite intro to R book is The Art of R Programming by Norman Matloff http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Programming-Statistical-Softwa...
Re:Free Data Science Books by craigching on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:32AM (#10191293)
This is a new book by Danny Kaplan that I was able to provide some feedback on prior to publishing:

http://data-computing.org/

I really enjoyed the book, it took a modern approach to R using many of the newer packages (dplyr for instance) and ggplot and combined them into a very nice introduction to R with labs, etc. Well worth checking out.

Re:Free Data Science Books by geoff-codes on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:32AM (#10191007)
Re:Free Data Science Books by blumkvist on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:55AM (#10191098)
Discovering Statistics Using R by Andy Field. AINEC.