Getting Started with R & RStudio

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Stephanie Hazlitt edited this page Dec 4, 2017 · 4 revisions

What are R & RStudio?

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R—including a console, text editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.

Why R & RStudio?

Excel vs R: A Brief Introduction to R (Jesse Sadler)
How do you convince other people to use R? (Roger Peng)

A Few Resources for Getting Started

R for Data Science (Garret Grolemund & Hadley Wickham)
RStudio Online learning
Online Courses (e.g. Coursera and DataCamp)