I’m very happy to introduce 7 additions to the Big Book of R collection which now stands at almost 450 free, open-source R programming books. A special thanks to Gary and Lucca Scrucca for their submissions.
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Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation Using mclust in R
- Luca Scrucca
- Chris Fraley
- T. Brendan Murphy
- Adrian E. Raftery
This book presents a systematic statistical approach to clustering, classification, and density estimation via Gaussian mixture modeling. This model-based framework allows the problems of choosing or developing an appropriate clustering or classification method to be understood within the context of statistical modeling. The mclust package for the statistical environment R is a widely adopted platform implementing these model-based strategies. The package includes both summary and visual functionality, complementing procedures for estimating and choosing models.
Machine Learning-based Causal Inference Tutorial
This book/tutorial will introduce key concepts in machine learning-based causal inference.
Research Software Engineering
Overview open source software and gives R examples in automation and reproducibility.
https://www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/workflow#research-software-engineering
Multi-state modelling with msm: a practical course
An introduction to the use of the msm R package for fitting and predicting from multi-state models for intermittently observed data, in typical medical applications.
https://www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages#multi-state-modelling-with-msm-a-practical-course
Applied Data Skill: Processing & Presenting Data
- Emily Nordmann
- Lisa DeBruine
This book provides an overview of the basic skills needed to turn raw data into informative summaries and visualisations presented in professional reports and presentations. The book will introduce learners to R (R Core Team, 2022), a programming language that can help automate working with data. The book will cover importing and processing data from spreadsheets, producing data summaries of descriptive statistics in tables, creating beautiful and informative visualisations, and constructing reports and presentations that automatically update when the underlying data changes.
https://www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20science#applied-data-skill-processing-presenting-data
Cookbook Polars for R
The goal of the cookbook is to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in using Polars with R. It allows R users using their usual packages to quickly get the syntax required to use Polars with R.
It is structured around side-by-side comparisons between polars, R base, dplyr, tidyr and data.table.
https://www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages#cookbook-polars-for-r
CRAN Cookbook
- Jasmine Daly
- Beni Altmann
Your go-to guide for solving common (and often recurring) issues spotted by CRAN volunteers during package submissions and re-submissions. Here, you’ll find practical “recipes” organized by different parts of the package structure.
https://www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages#cran-cookbook
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