Next steps with R

Before we dive into machine learning, it will be useful to pause for a moment, take a deep breath, and contemplate on what you have learnt so far. This quick yet detailed refresher of R will help you a lot in the upcoming chapters. However, there are two more things which we must go through quickly. They are how to get help in R and how to work with various packages in R.

Getting help

By now, you must have figured out that there are thousands of functions and constructs in R and it is impossible to remember what each of them actually does and you don't have to either! R provides many intuitive ways to get help regarding any function, package, or data structure. To start with, you can run the help.start() function at the R command ...

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