programming

The Advantages of RStudio

September 26th, 2017 by

There are multiple ways to interface with R. Some common interfaces are the basic R GUI, R Commander (the package “Rcmdr” that you use on top of the basic R GUI), and RStudio.

When I first started to learn to use R, I was bound and determined to use the basic R GUI.

As someone who was already used to programming in SAS, I wasn’t looking for a (more…)


What Really Makes R So Hard to Learn?

September 19th, 2017 by

If you are like I was for a long time, you have avoided learning R.

You’ve probably heard that there’s a steep learning curve. Or noticed that the available documentation is not necessarily user-friendly.

Frankly, both things are true, to some extent.

R is Open-Source

The best and worst thing about R is that it is open-source. So there is no single (more…)


R Programming Video: 15 Tips for The Beginner

March 25th, 2014 by

One of our instructors–David Lillis–recently gave a talk in front of the Wellington R Users Group highlighting 15 Tips for using the R statistical programming language aimed at the beginner.

Below is a video recording of his presentation…

 


R Is Not So Hard! A Tutorial, Part 11: Creating Bar Charts

January 28th, 2014 by

Let’s create a simple bar chart in R using the barplot() command, which is easy to use.

First, we set up a vector of numbers. Then we count them using the table() command, and then we plot them.

The table() command creates a simple table of counts of the elements in a data set.

H <- c(2,3,3,3,4,5,5,5,5,6)

Now we count the elements using the table() command, as follows: (more…)


R Is Not So Hard! A Tutorial, Part 9: Sub-setting

December 2nd, 2013 by

In Part 9, let’s look at sub-setting in R. I want to show you two approaches.

Let’s provide summary tables on the following data set of tourists from different nations, their gender and numbers of children. Copy and paste the following array into R. (more…)