Assingnment
Assignment 1
1. Install R, and RStudio
2. Install Packages Rcmdr, rattle, and Deducer. Install all suggested packages
or dependencies including GUI.
3. Load these packages using library command and open these GUIs one by
one.
Assignment 2
1. Take the free online R tutorial by DataCamp and become familiar with basic R
syntax
2. Create a github account at http://github.com
3. Learn to troubleshoot package installation above by googling for help.
4. Install package swirl and learn R programming
Assignment 3
Understand the R package ecosystem by visiting Cran Task Views
Sign up at http://r-bloggers.com for the daily newsletter
Assignment 4
Master the packages mentioned for importing data via this “Importing Data
Into R” course, or read these articles 1,2,3 and 4.
See this Data Wrangling with R video by RStudio
Read and practice how to work with packages like dplyr, tidyr, and data.table.
Assignment 5
Make sure you have understand the principles of the grammar of graphics.
Take the ggplot2 tutorial
Follow the html widgets tutorial by RStudio
Assignment 6
Start off with one of the intro to statistics courses
Take this free machine learning course by kaggle.
If there is one book on data mining using R you want, it is on Rattle
You can learn on time series forecasting from this booklet – A Little Book for
Time Series in R .
Assignment 7
Take one of the recommended time series tutorials listed above so you are
ready to start your own analysis.
Use a package such as quantmod or quandl to download financial data and
start your own time series analysis.
Use a package such as dygraphs to create stunning visualizations of your
time series data and analysis.