Jack Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 I've been looking for ways to teach myself to use the R programming language. I'm an engineer with a lot of statistics and data use education. I learned R is a powerful language for statics analysis and big data usage, but did not get any education in it. Since R is free, and I have too much free time, I downloaded the R language and RStudio to write programs in. While I was looking for exercises and tutorials, I found a 40 video long lecture series that walks you through the functionality of R in a very easy to follow along way. Here's the link to the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX532N_XLIs&index=1&list=PLqzoL9-eJTNBDdKgJgJzaQcY6OXmsXAHU So far, R is very much like MatLab, and shares a lot of functionality with Minitab. If you're interested in learning some basic programming (easier than Java), and want to learn how to use some excellent tools for data analysis, check out R and the video series all for free. The series is top notch and the guy deserves way more traffic!
Sal9000 Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 R is an incredible useful and powerful computer language. Good luck learning it. It has a steep learning curve, but it is very rewarding. I recommend those resources in addition to the video series: http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.htmlhttp://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/doc/html/http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/KB/R/index.htmlhttp://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596809164.doOnce you mastered the basis, you can check out O'Reilly's fantastic collection. 1
SigmaTau Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 R is very nice, and you have lots of modules. I subscribed to his channel, great!
Marlowe Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 This is my favorite online site for learning coding: https://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-r If you want a book, I recommend those in the O'Reilly series.
Eternal Growth Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 There is also this great book (available for free; there is a pdf on the site) which is primarily geared towards learning statistics and machine learning from scratch, but it uses R in its examples: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/index.html
Nick900 Posted August 15, 2015 Posted August 15, 2015 There's a good course on coursera called "data scientist" which covers statistics and moves onto R programming (it gives you a real nice background in the theory you'll need for it) - if you've never used the site before they try get you to pay but all the content is free, you just have to find the link on the page
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