Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R
by yread on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:45AM
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> install RStudio and are off to the races, with a helpful package installation GUI.
Unless the package needs a native component like libcurl of particular version then it can turn into couple of hours of blindly trying everything you can think of.
> Another great example: in R, data types are pretty fungible, everything is a vector,
Unless it's a dataframe or factor or string or s3, s4 or s5 or a couple of other things.
And the documentation will tell you the reference paper that you can read and some completely impractical example.
Unless the package needs a native component like libcurl of particular version then it can turn into couple of hours of blindly trying everything you can think of.
> Another great example: in R, data types are pretty fungible, everything is a vector,
Unless it's a dataframe or factor or string or s3, s4 or s5 or a couple of other things.
And the documentation will tell you the reference paper that you can read and some completely impractical example.
Ugh, feels better now, sorry for the rant.