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I have decided to improve my computer skills and in particular learn a little R. |
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R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues.
http://www.r-project.org/about.html
This sounds great. According to the R website, R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display. What makes R useful to me is the fact that it is a programming language (conditionals, loops, recursive functions etc) with built-in operators for calculations with matrices.
Other people like R for its data handling and analysis tools.
Some graphics
Among other things, R is quite good with graphics. Look at this example taken from the R website.
RStudio
Along side R, I will be using RStudio.
RStudio is a free and open source integrated development environment for R. You can run it on your desktop (Windows, Mac, or Linux) or even over the web using RStudio Server.
My Plans
So, learning R is going to be a weekend project for fun, rather than a serious project. As I manage to develop some code, hopefully with some nice graphics, I will post them here. I imagine a lot of the code will be adapted from peoples existing codes and I will try to give credit as best I can.
If you know of any good resources to help me learn R, then please feel free to share them here. As I find useful websites I will link to them.
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