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What Is R?

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Sound Analysis and Synthesis with R

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Abstract

The use of the softwave R is introduced such that R codes shown in the following chapters can be understood and repeated. This introduction is a friendly guide to quickly speak R language covering topics from R local installation on a personal computer to script writing for batch processing. More specifically, objects, operators, functions, indexes, conditions, graphics, and packages dedicated to sound are treated.

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Notes

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    http://www.r-project.org/

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    http://cran.r-project.org/

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    http://www.rstudio.com/

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    The function apply is the member of a family of functions, sapply, lapply, vapply, mapply, that slightly differs depending on the class of the input and output objects.

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    See Wickham (2014) for a complete description of efficient R programming.

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    Note that the seewave package has a function sox() that can help in parsing SoX from R.

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    Jérôme Sueur

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Sueur, J. (2018). What Is R?. In: Sound Analysis and Synthesis with R. Use R!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77647-7_3

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