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Using R

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In this chapter we give you some tutorials, tips, and tricks for learning the awesome power of R. We will also walk through the basics of web scraping, text mining, web analytics, social media analytics, data visualization, and forecasting R. Lastly we introduce to you the installr package that enables installation and updation of R a breeze.

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Ohri, A. (2014). Using R. In: R for Cloud Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1702-0_5

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