August 2013, UC Berkeley
Chris Paciorek
Note to BB: remember to start recording.
As we've seen R is powerful, flexible, and wide-ranging.
It's also sprawling, disorganized, and use-at-your-own risk.
Base packages, widely-used packages and packages by frequent R contributors are more trustworthy.
base
, grid
, lattice
, and ggplot2
)Any other things that you found frustrating and don't think are well-designed?
Some of this material was borrowed/modified from Jared Knowles' bootcamp
CRAN has manuals and contributed learning material.
D-Lab holds workshops on R and other topics, as well as having drop-in office hours.