Canterbury
R-User Group
15 August 2017
Why learn R?
Versatile!
Examples we will cover
- Stats
- Redimension data
- Easily make complex viz
- Make maps
- Grab stuff from webpages (scraping)
- "easified" javascript stuff
Elephant-in-room
R looks hard!!
Involved, but easy!
Great community!
- Stack Overflow
- github
- twitter #Rstats
- great female representation
(live demo)
