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Re:Big Book of R by vishnugupta on Thursday April 10, 2025 @11:44PM (#43650319)
As someone who is learning probability and statistics for recreation, I wholeheartedly agree. I wish I had come across R and dplyr/tidyverse/ggplot2 back in college while learning probability and stats. They were quite boring and drudgery to study because I wasn't aware of R to play around with data.

Well, better late than never I guess.

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Re:Big Book of R by gnuly on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:55AM (#43652191)
R was the first thing we had in our syllabus for (shallow)Machine Learning.

the ease of doing `model <- lm(speed~dist, cars)` and then `predict(model, data.frame(dist = c(42)))` is unparalled.

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