Travis Nelson's DOSUG Ignite presentation on R

1. Travis Nelson

3.  R is a programming language and software
environment for statistical computing and
graphics.
 R is an open source implementation of the S
programming language (created 1975-76 at Bell
Labs).
 Created in 1993

6.  Forbes: Names You Need to Know in 2011
 “R is the most powerful statistical computing
language on the planet; there is no statistical
equation that cannot be calculated in R.” –
Steve McNally, Forbes

7.  R is the most popular statistical package at
Google, according to Bo Cowgill, Google
 “The best thing about R is that it was
developed by statisticians. The worst thing
about R is that… it was developed by
statisticians.” - Bo Cowgill, Google

17.  Rserve - TCP/IP server running within R
which allows other programs to interface with
R.

18.  Analysis of log files
 Creating pretty charts and graphs for
management.
 Fun

19.  r-project.org

20.  Notepad with the R environment
 Revolutions Analytics – NOT FREE!!!
 StatET Eclipse Plugin
 RStudio!!!