There are many situations where data is presented in a format that is not ready to dive straight to exploratory data analysis or to use a desired statistical method. The reshape2 package for R provides useful functionality to avoid having to hack data around in a spreadsheet prior to import into R. Read the rest of this entry »
There are the following book reviews on this website:
Book Review – Modern Applied Statistics with S by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley (Springer 2003)
Book Review – ggplot 2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by Hadley Wickham (Springer 2009)
Book Review – Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R by Deepayan Sarkar (Springer 2008)