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R is the fastest growing statistical software/language and is rapidly overtaking all others (e.g. SPSS, STATA, & SAS in popularity and use.) For a view of where it's come from, check out R: Past and Future History (from 1998).
RStudio Desktop is a powerful and productive user interface for R. It’s free and open source, and works great on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Note that you need to login via your Carleton credentials for access to Lynda online courses.
See also:
- Laura Chihara's basic handouts for getting started with R: http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/math/resources/rcomputing/
- A wealth of Online Learning opportunities identified by RStudio.
- In particular, read the R Style Guide for advice on how to write readable, maintainable code. (This is how other R users will expect your code to look when you share it.)
- RStudio: Support & Documentation
- Open Learning Initiative free course on Probability and Statistics (in which the assignments may be completed using R.) From Carnegie Mellon University.
- A (very) short introduction to R (and Rstudio)
- UDacity's Data Analysis with R: Investigate, Visualize, and Summarize Data (Fee-based training that includes a free trial period.)
- CRAN is a network of ftp and web servers around the world that store identical, up-to-date, versions of code and and documentation for R (Manuals).
Avril Coghlan maintains these 3 HTML or PDF "books":
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