Saturday, July 4, 2015

R Programming Language - An introduction and installation steps

Refer index page for R at the following URL:
http://mylearningcafe.blogspot.in/2015/07/r-programming-index-page.html


This article is a brief introduction to the R programming language.

What is R?
As per wikipedia, R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis.

R and its libraries implement a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, including linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, and others.

R is easily extensible through functions and extensions, and the R community is noted for its active contributions in terms of packages.

Many of R's standard functions are written in R itself, which makes it easy for users to follow the algorithmic choices made.

How to install R?
Go to http://cran.r-project.org/ to install R
I have installed Windows version on my laptop.

Once R is installed, you can click on the icon and get a terminal to run sample commands.

This is how the R GUI (in Windows) looks like



However, if you want to work on R using an IDE, then you could install R-Studio from http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

This is how R Studio GUI (in Windows) looks like



Refer index page for R at the following URL:
http://mylearningcafe.blogspot.in/2015/07/r-programming-index-page.html

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