R Language

Free

Interpreted language

Designed for statistics

Other Statistical Programming Languages

SAS (good for database management), SPSS (good for learning), Stata (commonly used among epidemiologists and economists), Python, Julia

R Vs Python
R Python
Users Statisticians, Data Scientists Developers, AI Experts
Strengthens Data Visualization Natural Language Processing
Image Recognition
Package Distribution CRAN PyPi

Installation of R

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html

Working Directory

getwd()
setwd("d:/data")

R Studio Interface

R Packages

1. CRAN (general packages)

2. Bioconductor (bioinformatics packages)

3. Github (developing packages)

install.packages("dplyr")

R Journal

https://journal.r-project.org

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)

https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/