Statistical Data Analysis

[Anonymous No.8199700]

I want to learn R, basics and advanced stuff. I kind of taught me some things already but I would prefer if I had like actual exercise tasks you know? Some tutorials that give you a data set and let you do stuff yourself would be very nice.

If anyone has a source for something like this or any other general tips on how to learn R, I would apreciate it a lot. Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.8199724]

>>8199700
check out the art of R programming if you want a broad foundational book. There are also lots of resources online, such as Hadley Wickham's site and books.

[Anonymous No.8199804]

I highly recommend R in a Nutshell, great book and you can find it for free on the internet. It has datasets you can download and play with throughout the different chapters.
Also, before that you can try Code School. It's very very very basic, but lets you get the feel for R with an interactive guide and tasks.
(http://tryr.codeschool.com/))

[Anonymous No.8199829]

>>8199700
R sucks

Use Matlab instead

[Anonymous No.8199834]

>>8199829
I am studying to become a survey statistician not a mathematician. R suits my interests best from what I heard

[Anonymous No.8199835]

>>8199834
one thing that might be fun is to find a paper in your field that analyzes data in R and then try to replicate their analysis. grab their raw data, start writing an R script, and put together the figures they made

[Anonymous No.8199838]

>>8199835
That's a very interesting idea. Will do that (after some learning) thanks!

[Anonymous No.8199840]

>>8199829
There are some things Matlab is good for and some things R is good for. Personally I'm a bioinformatician and I use both (R mostly for statistics and amazing bioinformatics packages, matlab mostly for modulating)

[Anonymous No.8199981]

Download the Swirl() package in R. In console training sessions on various topics!