R Programming Complete Certification Training

A warm welcome to the R Programming course by Uplatz.

R is a programming language that 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.

While there is something called the S language which is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, on the other hand R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity. R is nothing but an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display. It includes an effective data handling and storage facility, a suite of operators for calculations on arrays, in particular matrices, a large, coherent, integrated collection of intermediate tools for data analysis, graphical facilities for data analysis and display either on–screen or on hardcopy, and a well–developed, simple and effective programming language which includes conditionals, loops, user–defined recursive functions and input and output facilities.

R can be considered as an integrated version of a programming language and software environment for statistical analysis, graphics representation and reporting. R was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently developed by the R Development Core Team. R is freely available under the GNU General Public License, and pre–compiled binary versions are provided for various operating systems like Linux, Windows and Mac. This programming language was named R, based on the first letter of first name of the two R authors (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka), and partly a play on the name of the Bell Labs Language S.