R from scratch (Beginners Guide)

1. Introduction to R programming language.

R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. R provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. In this post, we will look at following things.

 

1.1 Downloading and Installing R

1.2 Setting up development environment

1.3 R interpreter

1.3 Write first R script