{"id":463,"date":"2020-04-22T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puckpossessed.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2020-04-22T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:01:14","slug":"learning-r-reading-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/learning-r-reading-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning R &#8211; reading books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After I worked with R in the past and starting playing around with R Studio Cloud recently, I thought it would be a good idea to actually read some books about it. And, as this specific book suggested, make some notes and follow examples in a Markdown Notebook, that can be easily published as an html-file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/puckpossessed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/socvizNotebook.nb_.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">socvizNotebook.nb<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And low and behold, I can just save that file and upload it here, so that I just need to click once and see the same document. Very cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, one book I read through is Data Visualization, a practical introduction, by Kieran Healy. As with many books in the R-spectrum this one (be it a version that was not the final product) is <a href=\"http:\/\/vissoc.co\/index.html#preface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vissoc.co\/assets\/dv-cover-pupress.jpg\" alt=\"Cover\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked it a lot, as it uses R on a topic I care deeply about (data visualization) and guided me through mostly GGPLOT2 and DPLYR, two packages for data visualization and data cleanup, I wanted to get more familiar with. I highly recommend the book if you share similar interests and want to use R to make some visualizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I worked with R in the past and starting playing around with R Studio Cloud recently, I thought it would be a good idea to actually read some books about it. And, as this specific book suggested, make some notes and follow examples in a Markdown Notebook, that can be easily published as an&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/learning-r-reading-books\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning R &#8211; reading books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,28,27,25],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puck-possessed-hockey","tag-data-visualization","tag-dplyr","tag-ggplot","tag-r"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}