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R 4 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, API's and Library
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R 4 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, API's and Library

by Margot Tollefson
March 2022
Beginner to intermediate
602 pages
9h 25m
English
Apress
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M. TollefsonR 4 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7924-3_1

1. Downloading R and RStudio and Setting Up a File System

Margot Tollefson1  
(1)
Vanward Statistics, PO Box 286, 612 Teneyck Avenue, Stratford, IA, 50249-0286, USA
 
R is an open source statistical programming language based on the commercial programming language S. The S language was developed at Bell Laboratories in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly by John Chambers. The last version of S, called S4, came out in 1998. The R language was initially developed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland (in New Zealand) through “clean-room” methods. R was written ...
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