Getting Started with R and Statistics

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Maximum likelihood estimation
• Calculation densities, quantiles, and CDFs
• Creating barplots using ggplot
• Generating random numbers from multiple distributions
• Complex data processing with dplyr
• 3D visualization with the plot3d package
• Formatting tabular data with the formattable package
• Simple random sampling
• Creating plots via the DiagrammeR package
• C++ in R via the Rcpp package
• Interactive plots with the ggplot GUI package
• Animations with the gganimate package
• Using R6 classes
• Modelling sequences with the TraMineR package
• Clustering sequences with the TraMineR package
• Displaying geographical data with the leaflet package