Lesson 1 Basics of R
Learning Objectives
- Articulating motivations for using R
- Introduce participants to the RStudio interface
- Point to relevant information on how to get help, and understand how to ask well formulated questions
R is a versatile, open source programming/scripting language that’s useful both for statistics but also data science. Inspired by the programming language S.
- Open source software under GPL.
- Superior (if not just comparable) to commercial alternatives. R has over 7,000 user contributed packages at this time. It’s widely used both in academia and industry.
- Available on all platforms.
- Not just for statistics, but also general purpose programming.
- For people who have experience in programmming: R is both an object-oriented and a so-called functional language
- Large and growing community of peers.