CHAPTER 2
R Language Primer
In the last chapter, we defined what data visualizations are, looked at a little bit of the history of the medium, and explored the process for creating them. This chapter takes a deeper dive into one of the most important tools for creating data visualizations: R.
When creating data visualizations, R is an integral tool for both analyzing data and creating visualizations. We will use R extensively through the rest of this book, so we had better level set first.
R is both an environment and a language to run statistical computations and produce data graphics. It was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993 ...
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