After coming to Australia for my postgraduate studies, I have finally decided that I will become a Data analyst in the near future. And I have finally kickstarted the journey. There are two popular programming languages which are Python and R, two languages that specialize in computing and analysis. For now I would be focusing on only R. R is an open source programming language used for statistical and analytical computing. Its also the primary tool if you want to learn machine learning. And not to mention top giant companies like YouTube, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook and so on uses R for big data and analysis.
The programming syntax is similar to other programming language and its very easy to master R but you need to have some profound knowledge of statistics. The latest version of R for both windows, Linux and macOS can be downloaded from official R website here. There are many popular IDEs for R and I prefer using RStudio as it helps to keep everything organized in one place including your code, plots, graphs, comments and so on.
Well every programming journey starts with a beautiful "Hello World" program. So here's the simple code to kickstart your first journey in R.
print("Hello World!")
You can also run this program in the online IDEs like here.
Well that everything for now. We will be dealing with core programming principles, fundamentals of R, packages, analysis in the coming days.