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| swirl | r4ds | |
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| 58 | 165 | |
| 1,094 | 4,349 | |
| 0.6% | - | |
| 0.0 | 8.7 | |
| 6 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| R | R | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
swirl
Posts with mentions or reviews of swirl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Any suggestions on where I can learn R studio for an affordable cost?
R, the language you mean? I really like swirl, and my students do to.
- A little help for a pretty new bioinformatics student
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How to learn R for free?
I second using swirl for basics. Gets you coding straight in the terminal and is interactive. Great way to get started.
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Where to learn R?
Note, the R website has lots of manuals/introduction documentation and there’s also the swirl package to supplement / replace some of the options above.
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Help Please !
Hey, have you tried swirl? It's an interactive learning experience at a variety of difficulty levels.
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What is the recommended statistic language that a Policy analyst (EC group) should learn ?
Try this https://swirlstats.com/
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Would love your college course PowerPoints on how to use R Studio
My colleagues recommend installing a package called "swirl" and working through their tutorials. https://swirlstats.com/ I don't personally know a whole lot about it, but I have heard good things.
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Would love your college PowerPoints on how to use R Studio
swirl
- Resources for learning R?
- [S] [E] Tool to "play around with" statistical analysis
r4ds
Posts with mentions or reviews of r4ds.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.
- Ask HN: Learning Maths from the Ground Up
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Any suggestions on where I can learn R studio for an affordable cost?
https://r4ds.hadley.nz is free and very good
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Help with Understanding data loading/cleaning in R.
R for Data Science teaches you the tidyverse packages, which makes data wrangling so much easier!
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Learning R & statistics
One of the best free resources is the R4DS book by Hadley Wickham. You should make sure you start with the in progress second edition. https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
- Trying to learn Rstudio
- Questions as incoming PhD political science student
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First R project
The first edition of R4DS is quite old now. Check out the soon to be released second edition: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
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Is R dead?
R for Data Science (2nd Ed), the updated guide from Hadley Wickham
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[Career] Strong Mathematics Background, Limited "Technical" Background
The big skills gap you have is in practical data exploration and transformation, which will be a large part of any data-centric role. As much as people may have distaste for it, there is no avoiding data manipulation as critical foundational enabler of all inferential and predictive modeling work. SQL is the lingua franca here and well worth picking up the basics (joins, window functions, handling dates and times, etc.), plus learning how to implement similar transformations in R and Python. With appropriately transformed data, you then need to be able to visualize it effectively using tools like Tableau or ggplot2 in R. I would not necessarily seek courses or certificates in it but expect to be evaluated on them in technical interview screenings, so self-study accordingly. R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham is a great free resource for these topics for R.
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There’s a lot of data science books out there, any recommendations for must-reads?
I just looked and there is now a second edition! https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swirl and r4ds you can also consider the following projects:
fasteR - Fast Lane to Learning R!
100ProjectsOfCode - A list of practical knowledge-building projects.
tidytuesday - Official repo for the #tidytuesday project
R-vs.-Python-for-Data-Science
sambamba - Tools for working with SAM/BAM data
lab02_R_intro - Vežbe 2: Uvod u R
pols3316-summer2022 - Lab materials, assignments, and other materials for my students in Statistics for Political Science, POLS 3316, Section 1, at University of Houston, Summer 2022.
viridis - Colorblind-Friendly Color Maps for R
TidyverseSkeptic - An opinionated view of the Tidyverse "dialect" of the R language.
ggplot2-book - ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis