R Introduction

bit.ly/drstat-r-intro-slides

Barret

Background

• Purdue University
  • PhD Candidate in Statistics (start of 5th Year)
  • Dr. William Cleveland and Dr. Ryan Hafen
  • Research in large data visualization using R
  • .org
• Metamarkets.com - 1.5 years
  • San Francisco startup
  • Front end engineer - coffee script / node.js
• Iowa State University
  • B.S. in Computer Engineering
  • Research in statistical data visualization with R
    • ​Dr. Di Cook, Dr. Hadley Wickham, and Dr. Heike Hofmann

Download R & RStudio

(Personal Machines)

• R
  • www.r-project.org
  • "language"
• RStudio
  • Bullet Two
  • "interface" (IDE)

A (very) short
introduction to R - CRAN

By Torfs and Brauer

http://bit.ly/drstat-r-short

An Introduction to R - CRAN

(long, outdated plotting, & boring... but very thorough)