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R

R

R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display

• Open source
• In-memory & single-core (by default)
• Multi-platform
• Extensible environment
• Delivered by the R Foundation, supported by the R Consortium, grown by R developers
• r-project.org

Setup on Windows

• Get R
• Get R Tools
• Get RStudio or Visual Studio + VS R Tools

There's a package for that

• R is extended with packages of functionality
• More than 8,000 active packages according to MetaCRAN
• Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)
• Github via devtools

How it hangs together

library(DiagrammeR)
hangs<-"graph TB
D[Data] --> R[Read into memory]
R --> DM[Data manipulation]
DM --> V[Visualisation]
DM --> S[Statistical Analysis]
DM --> O[Output]
S --> V
V --> Do[Document]
Do --> O
V --> I[Interactive report]
I --> O
S --> W[Webservice]
W --> I
W --> O"
mermaid(hangs)

How it hangs together

hangs<-"graph LR
Dp[RDBMS, flat file, nosql, xml] --> Rp[data.table, RODBC, httr, rvest, readxl, readr,...]
Rp --> DMp[data.table, dplyr, zoo, lubridate, stringr, ...]
DMp --> Vp[ggplot2, DiagrammeR, vegalite, ...]
DMp --> Sp[caret, survival, nnet, ...]
DMp --> Op[base, readr, RODBC, ...]
Sp --> Vp
Vp --> Dop[knitr, rmarkdown, ...]
Dop --> Op
Vp --> Ip[shiny, ...]
Ip --> Op
Sp --> Wp[AzureML, jug, ...]
Wp --> Ip
Wp --> Op"
mermaid(hangs)

Next steps

1. Check out the R website
2. Install R & RStudio (or R Tools for Visual Studio)

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