How to practice R programming?

Question

Can you please suggest me the best ways to practice R programming?

Answer 1

You need to update your programming skills in R programming regularly. It can only be possible by practicing every day. Write code on your own and validate your code with the solutions on the Internet. Consider time complexity and space complexity while writing R code. There are a lot of online competitions for R programming. Participate in those competitions to check where you stand in the leader board. In case of any queries, you can check R documentation or R community for solutions.

You can watch this video on R programming tutorial for a quick revision before practicing R:

 

Answer 2

Before you start practicing R programming, you should thoroughly understand the basic concepts of R programming, such as operators, variables, data types, functions, and graphs, by implementing them in a simple dataset. Then, you should work on data exploration, manipulation, and visualization by picking up a use case, along with a dataset.

Finally, as R programming is also used to build Machine Learning models, you should acquire a thorough knowledge of Machine Learning algorithms as well. For this, you can move on to a larger dataset online, which includes a problem statement, and implement all the algorithms to check the one that works the best for the scenario. This is the best way to practice R programming and get a thorough understanding of all the concepts. 

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