Welcome to R

R is a popular programming language within the Data Scientist’s arsenal of tools. R has become popular over the past several years due to its flexibility, various data science uses and it is cost effective.

It is widely used due to its array of various uses such as:

Downloading R and RStudio is free, however there is also no support unless you use a third-party service. Over the course of this text, we will start to get more familiar with R and show how it might be used to complete complicated tasks. Will will be using RStudio as the front-end user interface with R.

Downloading R and RStudio is free. You can download R from https://cran.r-project.org/ and RStudio from https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/ and download the desktop version. You can also get access to Posit cloud https://posit.cloud/ which will enable you to run R with from the web.

These first chapter will formalize you with some of the fundamentals of R while the second chapter will introduce you to the Tidyverse, which is a collection of R libraries which are made to facilitate data wrangling and data visualization.