1 Introducing data and the R language
This chapter covers
- Why data analysis is important
- How to make your analysis robust
- How and why R works with data
- RStudio: Your interface to R
You have your data, and you want to start doing something awesome with it, right? Brilliant! I promise you, we’ll get to that as soon as we can. But first, let’s take a step back. Telling you to dive right in now would be like handing you a pile of different timbers, pointing you toward the workshop, and telling you to make some furniture. It’s a good idea to first understand both the materials and the tools you’re about to use.
We’ll go through what data means in general — to you and to those who may potentially inherit your data — because if you don’t fully ...
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