Let's use this classical statistics technique -- and some R, of course -- to get to some of the latent variables hiding in your data. Factor analysis is a classical statistics technique that examines ...

Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions. The R system has three components: a scripting language, an interactive ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

Before you start analyzing, you might want to take a look at your data object’s structure and a few row entries. If it’s a 2-dimensional table of data stored in an R data frame object with rows and ...

An impressively complete recovery utility, with options for retrieving lost data, managing disks and partitions, and creating virtual RAIDs. While there might be too much here for the beginner, the ...