Название: R Programming Language Training Courseware: Ernesto.Net
Автор: Ernesto Lee
Издательство: Amazon.com Services LLC
Год: 2021
Страниц: 392
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 18.9 MB

This courseware is intended to be read as a self-study guide or as a book for R programming training. R is an open-source programming language for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. Professor Ernesto Lee provides a complete hands-on walkthrough of the R programming language syntax, statistics, analytics, and Machine Learning concepts and applications. This timeless book has been used to teach thousands of analysts over the years.

It is sometimes said that R is an open source analogue of statistics software. Often you will hear that R is a programming language, but many programmers complain a lot about R, bewildered with its “quirks”. A more correct definition was given by John Cook during his talk on R. “R is not a language; it is an environment with a language” that contains all the tools for doing statistics coupled with R language. R language itself is a dialect of S language, as many constructs in R came from S while some were added later.

R language does not change much over the years. Although releases are frequent, they tend to contain bug fixes rather than major changes in R language. The language is changing as well, but this process goes slowly and in a way that will not inconvenience most users of R. In other words, you can use the latest version of R with little worry about what version was used to write this course.