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Wednesday, 22 July 2015

LEARNING WITH 'R'

                                 LEARNING WITH 'R'

WHAT IS R?

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. During the last decade, the momentum coming from both academia and industry has lifted the R programming language to become the single most important tool for computational statistics, visualization and data science. Worldwide, millions of statisticians and data scientists use R to solve their most challenging problems in fields ranging from computational biology to quantitative marketing. R has become the most popular language for data science and an essential tool for finance and analytics-driven companies such as Google, Facebook and LinkedIn.

INTRODUCTION TO R

To learn R, the best way to start is with datacamp(DATACAMP) It has courses that teaches R from basics such as introduction, vectors, matrices, factors, data frames, lists etc,. It gives us the flavour of R and keeps us get going. Below you can download R and RStudio. RStudio IDE( integrated development environment) is a powerful and productive user interface for R.

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R

RStudio

   

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