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Interesting, I'm going to look into this after work. I wonder if it teaches statistical theory and R or just the mechanics of R. Because the later would be mu
by stevehiehn 11y ago
Interesting, I'm going to look into this after work. I wonder if it teaches statistical theory and R or just the mechanics of R. Because the later would be much more useful.
- baldfat 11y agoIt teaches the language. It has been around for several years now. It is pretty use full for some people to get the syntax of R down. Some online classes even have it report to them for extra credit etc. The more I use R the less I use of base and mostly use the Hadley Wickham Universe of dplyr, tidyr, ggplot/ggvis etc.. This teaches mostly base and not the functional programming parts (Boy do I HATE loops and R base has a great list system that people seem to ignore)
- stevehiehn 11y agoThanks!
- geomark 11y agoThe "Hadley Wickham Universe", yeah, his stuff is awesome. magrittr and rvest are more awesomeness from Hadley that make web scraping a pleasure. [1] [1] http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/11/24/rvest-easy-web-scraping-with-r/ http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/11/24/rvest-easy-web-scraping-w...
- phillc73 11y agoOr more concisely, the Hadleyverse. [0] [0] http://adolfoalvarez.cl/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-hadleyverse/ http://adolfoalvarez.cl/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-hadleyv...
- _Wintermute 11y agoJust so credit it given appropriately, magrittr was from Stefan Milton Bache.
- gjreda 11y agoFor anyone interested in data analysis in R or Python (specifically Wickham's dplyr or McKinney's pandas), I can't recommend reading Wickham's paper on the split-apply-combine methodology enough. It really helped me understand working without looping. The paper's examples might be slightly dated as they use dplyr's predecessor, plyr. I imagine they're pretty similar though. http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/plyr.html http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/plyr.html