Super Fast Crash Course in R (for developers)

Last Updated on August 15, 2020

As a developer you can pick-up R super fast.

If you are already a developer, you don’t need to know much about a new language to be able to reading and understanding code snippets and writing your own small scripts and programs.

In this post you will discover the basic syntax, data structures and control structures that you need to know to start reading and writing R scripts.

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R Crash Course For Developers

R Crash Course For Developers
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R Syntax is Different, But The Same

The syntax in R  looks confusing, but only to begin with.

It is an older LISP-style language inspired by an even older language (S). The assignment syntax is probably the strangest thing you will see. Assignment uses the arrow (<-) rather than a single equals (=).

R has all of your familiar
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