R Programming

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Please use this as a forum to discuss R, and learn more about it. If you have any questions about how to do specific things in R, this is the place to ask.

Getting Started

You can download R here.

You can download RStudio here. RStudio IDE, which is supported by Posit PBC, is a powerful and well-developed IDE for R. Other development environment options include Emacs addon Emacs Speak Statistics and VSCode.

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Other communities that may be of interest across the fediverse:

Please send @a_statistician a message to recommend additional communities to add to this list.

Learning resources:

R for Data Science - a good introductory book for learning R. Start here if you're overwhelmed.
Big Book of R - collection of more than 500 online books/tutorials covering various aspects of R. Some links are to paid books with previews, but most links are to free online textbooks.

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Introduce yourself! (self.r_programming)

submitted 1 year ago by a_statistician to c/r_programming

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In the interests of making this community home for those of us who are reddit refugees, let's go ahead and introduce ourselves.

Some suggested things to comment on/include in your introduction:

Tidyverse, base, or data.table?
Are you primarily a user, a developer, or in between?
How long have you been using R?
What other languages do you use?
What do you use R for? Statistics? generative art? data wrangling?
Are you using R primarily for work, fun, hobbies, or something else?
Are you a hex sticker collector? Why or why not?
Where are you on the data engineering <----> pure statistics continuum?
What's your favorite obscure package?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kia ora! I'm a Postdoc in Social Science in NZ. I've been using R for about 6 years, mostly for my research work (usually survey analysis).

I've been programming almost since I could read, so have used many languages over the years (Perl was my #1 language for a long time).

I mostly do things in Tidyverse, but pretty agnostic about that.

Look forward to chatting with others on here!

[–] a_statistician 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, a native Perl coder! That's really interesting - I don't know that I've met that many people who use Perl outside of the biological sciences, but I know it's an incredibly powerful language. It just looks like cartoon swearing to me, which makes me laugh a bit.