An Introduction to R

R is a programming language of its kind. It is a language for statistics, and its ecosystem has a lot of libraries for all kinds of statistical tasks. It is a language targeted the statisticians rather than computer scientists. Hence you will see some unorthodox patterns in the language. In this post, you will learn about R. Specifically, you will learn

  • Why R is important
  • How to install R in your computer

Let’s get started.

An Introduction to R.
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Overview

This post is divided into three parts; they are: