![]() Step 3: Create a text file to turn into a wordle Do yourself a favour and download it from. There are handy tabs and windows: command line, workspace, history, files, plots, packages and help. RStudio is an open-source user interface organising everything you need on one single screen. Why? Because it makes R much more usable, so it won’t scare the pants off you. Got to and follow the download/installation instructions. I used R for Windows because the family iMac was already in use… As far as I know, however, the steps for the Mac version should be exactly the same. Yes, you can do this much more easily online with Wordle, but that is not the point… Besides, R also has a package to read directly from Twitter so you can plug all the power of R into it (but we won’t use that here). ![]() For example, here’s a word cloud of all my tweets over the past 3 years: If you’ve got 1-2 hours to fiddle around then the steps outlined below should help you create your first output with R. So to get started and experience a taster of how R works, I would recommend the following: create a world cloud. There are now many free online courses teaching R but some of these represent a significant investment of time. ![]() I recently gave it a try myself and found myself hooked in a matter of minutes. True, used in the wrong way, statistical algorithms can wreak havoc (garbage in – garbage out), but don’t let this intimidate you. It is also command-line driven, which makes it quite scary, especially for those of us who don’t get to be hands-on as often as we’d like to. We all know that most people use Excel when nobody’s watching.īut anyway, R is immensely powerful. ![]() From data mining to predictive analytics to data visualisation, it seems like any self-respecting data professional now uses R. R, the open source package, has become the de facto standard for statistical computing and anything seriously data-related (note I am avoiding the term ‘big data’ here – oops, too late!).
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