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Which Distro Is Best for Beginners?
2013-10-14 14:00:30| TechNewsWorld
Well it was a relatively quiet week here in the Linux blogosphere, where all the code is strong and the UIs good-looking. Yes, we had the good news about Tor and its NSA resistance, and yes, the Unu three-way gaming device and the Lenovo Android laptop both generated some excitement of their own. Truth be told, though, Linux fans have been overloaded with good news lately.
Beginner's guide to R: Painless data visualization
2013-09-09 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
One of the most appealing things about R is its ability to create data visualizations with just a couple of lines of code. For example, it takes just one line of code -- and a short one at that -- to plot two variables in a scatterplot. Let's use as an example the mtcars data set installed with R by default. To plot the engine displacement column disp on the x axis and MPG on y: plot(mtcars$disp, mtcars$mpg)
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Beginner's guide to R: Get your data into R
2013-09-09 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Once you've installed and configured R to your liking, it's time to start using it to work with data. Yes, you can type your data directly into R's interactive console. But for any kind of serious work, you're a lot more likely to already have data in a file somewhere, either locally or on the Web. Here are several ways to get data into R for further work.
Beginner's guide to R: Easy ways to do basic data analysis
2013-09-09 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
So you've read your data into an R object. Now what? Examine your data objectBefore you start analyzing, you might want to take a look at your data object's structure and a few row entries. If it's a two-dimensional table of data stored in an R data frame object with rows and columns -- one of the more common structures you're likely to encounter -- here are some ideas. Many of these also work on one-dimensional vectors as well.
Beginner's guide to R: Syntax quirks you'll want to know
2013-09-09 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
I mentioned at the outset that R syntax is a bit quirky, especially if your frame of reference is, well, pretty much any other programming language. Here are some unusual traits of the language you may find useful to understand as you embark on your journey to learn R.