The second edition of R for SAS and SPSS Users adds 216 pages on topics including:
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It
is easier to find reference material using the new list of tables, list
of figures and the index which now has four times as many entries.
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New
sections show how to run R from within Base SAS, SAS IML/Studio, WPS,
Excel and several R-optimized text editors.
- New GUI coverage includes
RStudio, Deducer and the Enterprise Miner-like Red-R.
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New data
acquisition topics include reading data from web sites, the clipboard
and improved examples of reading from Excel, databases, SAS, SPSS,
tab-delimited file and files that contain more than one case per line.
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How to select all numeric or character variables
(like VAR A-numeric-Z; or A-character-Z in SAS);
- How to select random samples
- How to standardize or rank variables
- How to find and remove
observations that are duplicate only on key variables (like PROC SORT
NODUPKEY)
- How to transpose data sets
- How to perform character string
manipulations using the new stringr package
- How to do date and time manipulations with the new lubridate package
- Enhancing your output for
use with word processors, web pages or LaTeX
- How to generate
repetitive patterns of variable names and matching widths for reading
complex text files
- How to make geographic maps
- How to do the sign test
for paired groups
- And various minor improvements on almost every page
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