1 Getting started
This chapter covers
- Brief introductions to R and RStudio
- R’s competitive edge over other programming languages
- What to expect going forward
Data is changing the way businesses and other organizations work. Back in the day, the challenge was getting data; now the challenge is making sense of it, sifting through the noise to find the signal, and providing actionable insights to decision-makers. Those of us who work with data, especially on the frontend—statisticians, data scientists, business analysts, and the like—have many programming languages from which to choose.
R is a go-to programming language with an ever-expanding upside for slicing and dicing large data sets, conducting statistical tests of significance, developing ...
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