Start Here To Learn R Vol. 1 Vectors, Arithmetic, And Regular Sequences: Practise Your R Programming Skills In 44 Exercises

If you are serious about learning R and being able to use R to solve real-world problems, this book is for you. It is the first volume in a series of compact eBooks, based on the simple premise that the best way to learn programming is by means of deliberate practice. This book offers a lot of practice, through 44 exercises. It also offers you a system to practice deliberately: each exercise is a step up from the previous one, and allows you to discover and practice a new concept, or extension to a concept you practised before.We'll take it slowly but thoroughly! The first 50 pages of this book cover the very, very basics of R: Vectors, arithmetic operators and functions, and regular sequences. In many books you will find an explanation of these topics condensedto a few pages, in some online tutorials to a single blog post, and in popular cheat sheets these topics might have been summarized in three or four lines. I don't think compressing information this way is going to help you to really understandR, and develop the skills to actually use R to solve an actual problem.To achieve this latter goal, your most important activity will be to sit down behind a computerscreen and keyboard, and interact with R. The exercises in this book are designed as a framework to guide that interaction, challenge you, and allow you to measure your progress. In fact, just reading this book without access to a computer, unfortunately, will be a waste of your time. I recommend to read the book on your computer screen (e.g. on the right side), and have an R session running on the left side of your screen. The final 20 pages cover the application of what you practised in the first 50 pages, in new situations. Rather than learning a new concept, or R function, at the end of the book, I will challenge you to develop solutions to real problems, by writing short R scripts using R data structures and functions appropriately

• | Author: Han De Vries
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 103 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1086821688
• | ISBN-13: 9781086821680