How I Learned R

This week a neighbor of mine told me he wanted to learn R, and asked me how I learned R. I realized I had never blogged about it, so here we go. I learned R through a rather unusual way: I mostly learned R by answering other people’s questions. R was introduced to me in 2004 in a course on statistical computing when I was an undergraduate. Before that, we were taught a little bit S. We didn’t learn these languages systematically, but that was fine. After you learn what a numeric vector is and ho...

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