This book is a step-by step, example-oriented tutorial that will show both intermediate and advanced users how data manipulation is facilitated smoothly using R. This book is aimed at intermediate to advanced level users of R who want to perform data manipulation with R, and those who want to clean and aggregate data effectively. Readers are expected to have at least an introductory knowledge of R and some basic administration work in R, such as installing packages and calling them when required.

Author Biography

Jaynal Abedin currently holds the position of Statistician at the Centre for Communicable Diseases (CCD) at icddr,b (www.icddrb.org). He attained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Statistics from the University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He has vast experience in R programming and Stata and has efficient leadership qualities. He is currently leading a team of statisticians. He has handson experience in developing training material and facilitating training in R programming and Stata along with statistical aspects in public health research. His primary area of interest in research includes causal inference and machine learning. He is currently involved in several ongoing public health research projects and is a coauthor of several workinprogress manuscripts. In the useR! Conference 2013, he presented a poster-edeR: Email Data Extraction using R, available at http://www.edii.uclm.es/~useR2013/abstracts/files/34_edeR_Email_ Data_Extraction_using_R.pdf-and obtained the best application poster award. He is also involved in reviewing scientific manuscripts for the Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS) and the Journal of Health Population and Nutrition (JHPN). He is also a successful freelance statistician on online platforms and has an excellent reputation through his highquality work, especially in R programming. He can be contacted at joystatru@gmail.com, http://bd.linkedin.com/in/jaynal; his Twitter handle is @jaynal83.