Introduction to R programming & RStudio for beginners

(Please note: this course is a basic introduction to R and RStudio, meant for beginner level. More advanced courses coming soon.)

R is currently one of the most requested programming languages in the Data Science job market that makes it the hottest trend nowadays.

R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing, data manipulation & analysis, graphics representation and reporting supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.

No one is born a data scientist. Every person who works with R today was once a complete beginner. No matter how much you know about the R ecosystem already, you’ll always have more to learn.

Applications of R:

    We use R for Data Science. It gives us a broad variety of libraries related to statistics. It also provides the environment for statistical computing and design.

    R is used by many quantitative analysts as its programming tool. Thus, it helps in data importing and cleaning.

    R is the most prevalent language. So many data analysts and research programmers use it. Hence, it is used as a fundamental tool for finance.