Introduction
This book is about the R programming language. Maybe more important, this book is for you.
These days, R is an impressively robust language for solving problems that lend themselves to statistical programming methods. There is a large community of users and developers of this language, and together we are able to accomplish things that were not possible before we virtually met.
Of course, to leverage this collective knowledge, we have to start somewhere. Chapters 1 through 5 focus on gaining familiarity with the R language itself. If you have prior experience in programming, these chapters will be very easy for you. If you have no prior programming experience, that is perfectly fine. We build from the ground up, and let us suggest ...
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