Introduction

The purpose of this book is to teach students of social science statistics courses how to program in R for data analysis. Primarily focusing on Base R, this book will teach R “from the ground up,” teaching the fundamentals without using external packages unless necessary or for quick demonstrations on the programming language’s extensions. Overall, I hope that students will learn enough from this book to conduct data analysis in R independently.

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