Hour 1. The R Community

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Image A brief history of S and R

Image An overview of the R community

Image The development and release of R versions

In this hour we start by looking at how R evolved from the S language to become the all-purpose data science programming language that it is today. It is important when learning any programming language to understand a little about where it came from and why it functions as it does. This is ...

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