R Programming

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Please use this as a forum to discuss R, and learn more about it. If you have any questions about how to do specific things in R, this is the place to ask.

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You can download R here.

You can download RStudio here. RStudio IDE, which is supported by Posit PBC, is a powerful and well-developed IDE for R. Other development environment options include Emacs addon Emacs Speak Statistics and VSCode.

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Learning resources:

R for Data Science - a good introductory book for learning R. Start here if you're overwhelmed.
Big Book of R - collection of more than 500 online books/tutorials covering various aspects of R. Some links are to paid books with previews, but most links are to free online textbooks.

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In the interests of making this community home for those of us who are reddit refugees, let's go ahead and introduce ourselves.

Some suggested things to comment on/include in your introduction:

Tidyverse, base, or data.table?
Are you primarily a user, a developer, or in between?
How long have you been using R?
What other languages do you use?
What do you use R for? Statistics? generative art? data wrangling?
Are you using R primarily for work, fun, hobbies, or something else?
Are you a hex sticker collector? Why or why not?
Where are you on the data engineering <----> pure statistics continuum?
What's your favorite obscure package?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm @MalditoBarbudo, a data scientist at an ecology and forestry research center.

I've been using R for 14 years, starting as an user and ending as a developer. I've done also some python, sql and web development (html, js and css).

I prefer tidyverse, it fit perfectly with my mental logic, but I reckon that sometimes data.table is needed (but in that case dtplyr comes to help!).

I maintain several packages (sapfluxnetr, meteospain...) and collaborate in others (meteoland, medfate...). I also maintain a web with several shiny apps for forest data visualization (LFC).

My favourite obscure package changes every week or so, but if I have to choose one, lately I've been playing with rayshader, trying to create nice 3d map plots.

[–] jdnewmil 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am a an engineering consultant, specializing in solar photovoltaic power systems.

Tidyverse and Base R. I find people who do things the hard way tedious just to be pure.
I suppose I am more of a user, because I haven't released any of my packages.
Almost 25 years.
C++, Python. Many other languages as they have been needed, from Assembly to VBA and Matlab.
R is to me what Excel is for a lot of people... a full featured calculator. I compose a lot using RMarkdown/Quarto. I tend to build reproducible pipelines for data or simulations.
Both, though at work there is some pressure to use more Python.
I have some stickers. I don't have many.
Probably closer to the data wrangling end.
onion... 3d space rotations made easy through obscure math (which way is the solar panel pointing anyway?)