{"id":1317,"date":"2014-05-07T12:38:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T12:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2014-05-07T12:38:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T12:38:50","slug":"resources-for-getting-started-with-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/estatistica\/resources-for-getting-started-with-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for Getting Started with R"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_515\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2012\/06\/04\/resources-for-getting-started-with-r\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-515\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/files\/2011\/12\/FlowingData.png\" alt=\"Recursos para come\u00e7ar a usar o R\" width=\"161\" height=\"29\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recursos para come\u00e7ar a usar o R<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>Resources for Getting Started with R<\/h1>\n<div>June 4, 2012 \u00a0|\u00a0 <a title=\"View all posts in Software\" rel=\"category tag\" href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/category\/software\/\">Software<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">R<\/a>, the open source  statistical software environment, is powerful but can be a challenge to  approach for beginners. For me, the best way to learn R, especially on  the visualization side of things, is to dive right in. Grab some data  and make some charts, or better yet, find a graph you like and try to  replicate it.<\/p>\n<p>R core functionality and the many available packages let you do a lot  without having to know what&#8217;s going on underneath. I use this approach  in <a href=\"http:\/\/book.flowingdata.com\">Visualize This<\/a> and the tutorials around here. I like the satisfaction of immediate results. Then I learn the nitty gritty later.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it doesn&#8217;t hurt to familiarize yourself with the  environment. Also, visualization is a small part of what you can do with  R, so it can help to know what else you can do analysis-wise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources for Getting Started with R June 4, 2012 \u00a0|\u00a0 Software R, the open source statistical software environment, is powerful but can be a challenge to approach for beginners. For me, the best way to learn R, especially on the visualization side of things, is to dive right in. Grab some data and make some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,102,137],"tags":[132,157],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-mining","category-estatistica","category-software","tag-r-software","tag-software-estatistica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uac.pt\/amendes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}