If you appreciate reading the book for free and would like to give back, please make a donation to Kākāpō Recovery: the kākāpō (which appears on the cover of R4DS) is a critically endangered parrot native to New Zealand there are only 248 left. If you’d like a physical copy of the book, you can order the 1st edition on Amazon, or wait until mid-2023 for the 2nd edition. This website is and will always be free, licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 License. You’ll also learn how to manage cognitive resources to facilitate discoveries when wrangling, visualizing, and exploring data. You’ll learn how to use the grammar of graphics, literate programming, and reproducible research to save time. These are the skills that allow data science to happen, and here you will find the best practices for doing each of these things with R.

Just as a chemist learns how to clean test tubes and stock a lab, you’ll learn how to clean data and draw plots-and many other things besides. In this book, you will find a practicum of skills for data science. This book will teach you how to do data science with R: You’ll learn how to get your data into R, get it into the most useful structure, transform it and visualize.

This is the website for the work-in-progress 2nd edition of “R for Data Science”.

Basic grammar in use second edition pdf