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.

Other Communities

Other communities that may be of interest across the fediverse:

• https://lemmy.ml/c/rstats
• https://lemmy.ml/c/dataisbeautiful
• https://lemmy.world/c/dataisbeautiful
• https://code4lib.net/c/datascience
• https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/data_engineering

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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