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1. Welcome to R Programming

1. Welcome to the Course on R Programming !

Hello!!
Welcome to the R programming Course. I am super excited that you decided to have a look at this blog. This course about the different techniques and features of R programming which are helpful in Analytics.
Many of you might be knowing about some of the techniques to be used in R programming but you should know them correctly and understand where It can be used to maximize its potential and moreover practicing those techniques.
During this course we are going to analyze various data sets for example weather trends, machine data, etc and learn Analytics through R. And have lots of fun.
Just make sure to follow on with the code because that is probably the most important part so that you get the hands-on practical applications on R and then you can always tweak your code to explore more. There are various sections in which I have divided our course into.
  1. Data Preparation
  2. Factors in R
  3. Missing Data Treatment
  4. Visualization Results
  5. Lists and its operations
  6. “Apply” family functions
HAPPY LEARNING !!!

 

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