Chapter 2 R Programming - A Great Tool for Data Science
There are many tools for data science. Of these tools, R Programming is one of the most powerful tools. It is powerful in that it has more than 11,000 packages on the CRAN ( Comprehensive R Archive Network) and thousands of other packages on Github and other platforms. Moreover, many companies around the word use R. For example -
| Companies | Companies | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Mircrosoft | Uber | Airbnb |
| IBM | Boeing | Ford |
| New York Times | Wells Fargo | American Express |
Very good website for the introductory part - https://rc2e.com/gettingstarted#recipe-id001 and https://rc2e.com/navigatingthesoftware#intro-NavigatingTheSoftware
2.1 Starting with R Program
2.1.1 Installing R
2.1.2 Installing RStudio
2.2 Data Analytics Ecosystem in R
We will adopt the following ecosystem in data analytics in R.
FIGURE2.1: Data Analytics Ecosystem in R