Introduction to R By Robert Biddle

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Agenda What is this thing?? Overview of the Environment Basic Commands Data Types Plots Neat Stuff SQL HTML Application Servers

What is R? R is a programming language for statistics and data visualization. It’s commonly used for computation, statistics, data mining, data analysis, and data discovery.

Why R? R is free, open source Easy to use Active, helpful community Interactive Flexible Fast Active, helpful community Thousands of free add-on packages Increased in popularity Widely used in academia Growing in professional – exceeding SAS and SPSS http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/

Tools Download and Install: R: http://www.r-project.org/ Rstudio: http://www.rstudio.com/

Documentation & Information http://www.r-project.org/ http://rseek.org/ http://www.r-bloggers.com/

Demo

Contact and References Rob.biddle@gmail.com // @robert_biddle // https://robbiddle.wordpress.com/ http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Torfs+Brauer-Short-R-Intro.pdf http://jenstirrup.com/ http://tinyurl.com/o7uw6qh http://rgraphicsdevice.codeplex.com/ http://vnijs.github.io/radiant/ http://shiny.rstudio.com/ http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/