Preface
What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?
Alice, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid.
Q, “Q Who?” Stark Trek: The Next Generation
When I began writing this book, I spent quite a bit of time searching for a good quote to start things off. I ended up with two. R is a wonderfully flexible platform and language for exploring, visualizing, and understanding data. I chose the quote from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to capture the flavor of statistical analysis today—an interactive process of exploration, visualization, and interpretation.
The second quote reflects the generally held notion that R is difficult to learn. ...
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