|Episode No.01| Introduction to R Programming for Beginners

This tutorial for R programming will be a series for beginners which will be consisting of 10-15 Episodes.

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► R programming is a computer programming language used for data analysis, data visualization, data mining and to write software along with many other tasks. R programming is an open-source software and available FREE of cost under General Public License. It has about more than 18,000 packages which enables R to be more flexible with different kind of problems.
► Why learn R programming?
R is being widely used in the field of data science.
It has large community of users.
R is best programming language for Statisticians.
R can be integrated with other programming languages such as Java, C++, Python etc.
R is being used for a variety of purposes including academic research, data analysis in different fields such marketing, sports, manufacturing, machine learning and data mining.
R is also used at Google and Facebook for data analysis and statistical applications
R can be easily installed on any operating system e.g., Windows, Mac, Linux

►Brief History of R Programming

R language is a modified version of S-programming language.
R was introduced in 1995 for the first time.
R was initially written by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, who were known as "R & R" of the Statistics Department of the University of Auckland.
R can run on any operating system even on PlayStation 3.

R Studio?
To get R Studio working, R must be installed on your PC.
R code be directly run from source code editor.
It enhances the code and arranges it in a better and appealing manner which makes it convenient tool.
We can look into libraries, console, code editor and dataset in the same window without skipping important stuff.