News that Microsoft will acquire Revolution Analytics has raised interest about R among SQL Server and .NET developers and administrators. Simple-Talk is an online technical journal and hub for a community of such users. I just wrote an article called R Basics that introduces R, R Studio, dplyr and ggplot2. A whirlwind tour, but some of the best stuff in the R eco-system for the new user.
And who knows, maybe we will get an Excel user or two to take a look...
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