{"id":3225,"date":"2020-02-06T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?page_id=3225"},"modified":"2020-03-02T14:19:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T19:19:04","slug":"r","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/home\/training-research-and-resources\/other-resources-and-skills\/research-skills\/software\/r\/","title":{"rendered":"Software: R"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n\t\tUsing R\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>R is an open-source (free) software used for statistical analysis. It is particularly favored among statisticians for its ability to nicely handle large and complicated datasets, although often less-utilized among economists.<\/p>\n<p>If your place of employment doesn&#8217;t have Stata licenses, you&#8217;re not able to dish out the hefty fee required for an individual perpetual Stata license, and Microsoft Excel is feeling a little underpowered, it might be a good time to consider learning R.<\/p>\n<p>R is arranged somewhat differently than Stata, although any skills you have with Stata or other programming software will make it much easier to pick up R.<\/p>\n\tGetting R (download both):<br \/>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oit.williams.edu\/software\/entry\/841\/?pagenum=3\">Download R, the statistical package<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oit.williams.edu\/software\/entry\/923\/?pagenum=4\">Download R Studio<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R Studio is a front-end that makes R itself easier to use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nUsing R:<br \/>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=2ahUKEwit5reArb3nAhUvnOAKHRoLAHsQFjAAegQIARAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcran.r-project.org%2Fdoc%2Fcontrib%2FParadis-rdebuts_en.pdf&amp;usg=AOvVaw3c8nAQAdQCbNV_AJ1-9Tx-\">R for beginners tutorial from CRAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/2497143\/business-intelligence-beginner-s-guide-to-r-introduction.html\">R for beginners from ComputerWorld<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/a-complete-guide-to-learn-r-29e691c61d1\">An overview of R from Towards Datascience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using R R is an open-source (free) software used for statistical analysis. It is particularly favored among statisticians for its ability to nicely handle large and complicated datasets, although often less-utilized among economists. If your place of employment doesn&#8217;t have Stata licenses, you&#8217;re not able to dish out the hefty fee required for an individual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":0,"parent":3091,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3225\/revisions\/3867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}