Introduction to R

Overview

Teaching: 5 min min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What is R?

Objectives

• Basic Introductory of R

• Why using R

• R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
• R is similar to the S language
• R is developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues.
• R can be considered as a different implementation of S language
• R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.
• R is available as Free Software
• R runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS.
• R can be extended (easily) via packages on CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network)
• R is within top of Data Science language and has many statistical packages available on CRAN

Key Points

• Advantage of using R