Learning R

There are almost as many uses for R as there are people using it. It is not possible to cover your specific needs within this book. However, it is likely that you wish to use R to process, query, and visualize data such as sales figures, satisfaction surveys, concurrent users, sporting results, or whatever types of data your organization processes. Later chapters will concentrate on Google Analytics data downloaded from the API, but for now, let's just take a look at the basics.

Getting help

There are many books and online materials that cover all aspects of R. The name R can make it difficult to come up with useful web search hits (substituting CRAN for R can sometimes help); nonetheless, searching for R tutorial brings back useful results. ...

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