Cheatsheets or guides for transitioning to R from another language

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Cheatsheets or guides for transitioning to R from another language #5

Open gaborcsardi opened 7 years ago

gaborcsardi commented 7 years ago

These could be printable one (or more?) page documents, and/or websites.

Candidate languages:

Python
Matlab
C (?)
Java (?)
SAS (?)
SPSS (?)
Perl (?)
SQL (?)

Whether it is a website or downloadable PDFs, the sources should be open source at GitHub, and the docs can be at R-hub.

leeper commented 7 years ago

Also Stata.

karthik commented 7 years ago

It would be nice to prioritize by languages from which people are likely to transition. Stata, SAS, and SQL users are more likely on the analyst end of the spectrum.

gaborcsardi commented 7 years ago

@karthik True. But I think there are also a lot (?) of people that know some Python or Matlab, etc., i.e. not the typical stats languages, and they are moving into data science. Now their choice is to learn (more) DS and stats in Python or Matlab, or give R a try.

Anyway, prioritizing is indeed important, and maybe it is possible to collect some data that can drive it. Don't know where or how, though......

AmeliaMN commented 7 years ago

I'm working (slowly...) on a cheatsheet that is a comparison of what I see as the three main R syntaxes:

dollar sign/base R: plot(mtcars$mpg, mtcars$cyl)
formula/lattice/mosaic: xyplot(cyl~mpg, data=mtcars)
tidyverse: ggplot(mtcars) + geom_point(aes(x=mpg, y=cyl))