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Is R software difficult to learn?

Is R software difficult to learn?

Is R Hard to Learn? R is known for being hard to learn. This is in large part because R is so different to many programming languages. The syntax of R, unlike languages like Python, is very difficult to read.

How long will it take to learn R language?

If you have experience in any programming language, it takes 7 days to learn R programming spending at least 3 hours a day. If you are a beginner, it takes 3 weeks to learn R programming. In the second week, learn concepts like how to create, append, subset datasets, lists, join.

Why is r such a bad language?

R has a bad reputation because it has “slow” performance. In reality, R performance is fast enough for it’s intended audience without getting in the way of its usefulness data analysis and statistics. Many people use it on an ad-hoc basis.

How do I become an R programmer?

The principal qualifications for any R programmer job are knowledge of the R language and experience in the field in which you want to work. Similar to a web developer, you need expert coding skills and, preferably, fluency in one or more scripting languages, like Python.

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What are the strengths of the your programming language?

The strength of the language is in it’s ability to perform statistical work and graphing on data. Taking away the math and that functionality sort of defeats the purpose of the language. I’m just now learning R myself.

How hard is it to learn R?

R is easy. The greatest difficulty I had was picking up enough R (and stats) lingo to be able to google for answers effectively. I don’t think of R being a functional language any more than python is a functional language.

What programming languages do you have experience with?

Programming languages: Most experienced with C, Java and JavaScript Some experience with Perl, PHP and Bash Dabbled in Ruby, Go and Groovy

Is C programming the hardest part of programming?

Details of the syntax of more complex commands such as FORTRAN’s write and read statements or of the standard C library functions are easy to remember once you use them often and there is online help (man pages) for the latter. The hard part of programming is NOT the coding.