Basics

This section is under review.

In the first part of this books you will be introduced to R, the RStudio IDE, and an online IDE, Posit Cloud, and the newly created Positron IDE in Chapter 1  R, RStudio, and Posit Cloud. After, we get the fundamentals of the R programming, getting familiar with the syntax of the language and handling some basic operations in Chapter 2  Operators in R. The goal here is to get you familiar with R as fast as possible. After this, we move on the various data types in R, since R is mainly for data analysis, Chapter 3  Data Types in R introduces you with the common data type you will come across in your daily work. You will get acquainted to performing some operation on the different data-types in Chapter 4  Functions, and get to know how the different data types can be arranged or organized for data analysis in Chapter 5  Data Structure.Chapter 6  Control Structure introduces us to conditionals and loops to ensure that we get result based on set conditions. To round up this part, we see get to see how to initiate a project in Chapter 8  Workflow in R: Best Practices for Efficient R Programming.