R Programming for Data Analysis Course

What is R Programming for Data Analysis?

R is a programming language and free software environment 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. Polls, data mining surveys, and studies of scholarly literature databases show substantial increases in popularity; as of January 2021, R ranks 9th in the TIOBE index, a measure of popularity of programming languages.

Content

• History
• Statistical features
• Programming features
• Packages
• Milestones
• Interfaces
• Implementations
• Communities
• useR! conferences
• The R Journal
• Comparison with SAS, SPSS, and Stata
• Commercial support for R
• Examples
  • Basic syntax
  • Structure of a function
  • Modeling and plotting
  • Mandelbrot set