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R Programming Introduction

R is an open-source programming language widely used for statistical analysis and data visualization. It was created at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and provides tools for statistical analysis, graphics, statistics, probability distributions, and data analysis. R has a large community of users and is one of the most in-demand programming languages in data science. It allows for easy creation of objects, functions, and packages and integration with other languages like C and C++.

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R Programming Introduction

R is an open-source programming language widely used for statistical analysis and data visualization. It was created at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and provides tools for statistical analysis, graphics, statistics, probability distributions, and data analysis. R has a large community of users and is one of the most in-demand programming languages in data science. It allows for easy creation of objects, functions, and packages and integration with other languages like C and C++.

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R Programming Language – Introduction

R is an open-source programming language that is widely used as a statistical software and data analysis
tool. R generally comes with the Command-line interface. R is available across widely used platforms like
Windows, Linux, and macOS. Also, the R programming language is the latest cutting-edge tool.

It was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is
currently developed by the R Development Core Team. R programming language is an implementation
of the S programming language. It also combines with lexical scoping semantics inspired by Scheme.
Moreover, the project conceives in 1992, with an initial version released in 1995 and a stable beta
version in 2000.

Why R Programming Language?

R programming is used as a leading tool for machine learning, statistics, and data analysis. Objects,
functions, and packages can easily be created by R.

It’s a platform-independent language. This means it can be applied to all operating system.

It’s an open-source free language. That means anyone can install it in any organization without
purchasing a license.

R programming language is not only a statistic package but also allows us to integrate with other
languages (C, C++). Thus, you can easily interact with many data sources and statistical packages.

The R programming language has a vast community of users and it’s growing day by day.

R is currently one of the most requested programming languages in the Data Science job market that
makes it the hottest trend nowadays.

Features of R Programming Language

Statistical Features of R:

Basic Statistics: The most common basic statistics terms are the mean, mode, and median. These are all
known as “Measures of Central Tendency.” So using the R language we can measure central tendency
very easily.

Static graphics: R is rich with facilities for creating and developing interesting static graphics. R contains
functionality for many plot types including graphic maps, mosaic plots, biplots, and the list goes on.

Probability distributions: Probability distributions play a vital role in statistics and by using R we can
easily handle various types of probability distribution such as Binomial Distribution, Normal Distribution,
Chi-squared Distribution and many more.
Data analysis: It provides a large, coherent and integrated collection of tools for data analysis.

Programming Features of R:

R Packages: One of the major features of R is it has a wide availability of libraries. R has
CRAN(Comprehensive R Archive Network), which is a repository holding more than 10, 0000 packages.

Distributed Computing: Distributed computing is a model in which components of a software system are
shared among multiple computers to improve efficiency and performance. Two new packages ddR and
multidplyr used for distributed programming in R were released in November 2015.

Programming in R:

Since R is much similar to other widely used languages syntactically, it is easier to code and learn in R.
Programs can be written in R in any of the widely used IDE like R Studio, Rattle, Tinn-R, etc. After writing
the program save the file with the extension .r.

To run the program use the following command on the command line:

R file_name.r

Advantages of R:

R is the most comprehensive statistical analysis package. As new technology and concepts often appear
first in R.

As R programming language is an open source. Thus, you can run R anywhere and at any time.

R programming language is suitable for GNU/Linux and Windows operating system.

R programming is cross-platform which runs on any operating system.

In R, everyone is welcome to provide new packages, bug fixes, and code enhancements.

Disadvantages of R:

In the R programming language, the standard of some packages is less than perfect.

Although, R commands give little pressure to memory management. So R programming language may
consume all available memory.

In R basically, nobody to complain if something doesn’t work.

R programming language is much slower than other programming languages such as Python and
MATLAB.

Applications of R:
We use R for Data Science. It gives us a broad variety of libraries related to statistics. It also provides the
environment for statistical computing and design.

R is used by many quantitative analysts as its programming tool. Thus, it helps in data importing and
cleaning.

R is the most prevalent language. So many data analysts and research programmers use it. Hence, it is
used as a fundamental tool for finance.

Tech giants like Google, Facebook, bing, Twitter, Accenture, Wipro and many more using R nowadays.

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