R for Excel Users

Re:R for Excel Users by losteverything on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:04PM (#13662084)

Great article. But I'm an old spreadsheet jockey in non tech jobs now. I use Sheets for quick and dirty stuff.

Where does one "get" R?

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Re:R for Excel Users by phillc73 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:32PM (#13662311)

For Linux users, it is probably installable through the distribution's package manager.

For others, the R language website: https://www.r-project.org

Also try the IDE from RStudio to make life more pleasant: https://www.rstudio.com

Good luck! It is a fun journey and a big, deep, wonderful, rewarding rabbit hole.

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Re:R for Excel Users by gordon_shotwell on Thursday February 16, 2017 @03:05PM (#13663109)

The R for Data Science book really is the best, but I would also recommend https://www.datacamp.com/ for some great video tutorials.

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Re:R for Excel Users by minimaxir on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:31PM (#13662294)

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Re:R for Excel Users by thenipper on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:29PM (#13662809)

Also check out: R for Data Science: http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

It's got a lot of good intro materials for R. Though having some understanding of another programming language would be pretty helpful.

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