{"id":2646,"date":"2012-12-09T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T09:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2012-12-09T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T09:24:05","slug":"learning-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/12\/09\/learning-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning R"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<p>I have decided to improve my computer skills and in particular learn a little R.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/Rlogo.jpg\" alt=\"R\" width=\"120\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote><p>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&amp;T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/about.html\" title=\"R about\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/about.html<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This sounds great. According to the R website, <em>R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display<\/em>. 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.  <\/p>\n<p>Other people like R for its data handling and analysis tools. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Some graphics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among other things, R is quite good with graphics. Look at this example taken from the R website.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/screenshots\/volcano-image.jpg\" alt=\"volcano\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/screenshots\/volcano-persp.jpg\" alt=\"volcano2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>RStudio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along side R, I will be using RStudio.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstudio.com\/ide\/\" title=\"RStudio\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rstudio.com\/ide\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Plans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\" title=\"R\" target=\"_blank\">The R Project for Statistical Computing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstudio.com\/ide\/\" title=\"RStudio\" target=\"_blank\">RStudio IDE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to improve my computer skills and in particular learn a little R. 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&amp;T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/12\/09\/learning-r\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning R<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}