An Introduction to the Programming Language R for Beginners

The R programming language is an open source programming language designed specifically for data analysis. R allows data analysis interactively, by means of scripts or also by programming complete programmes. The functionality of R can be extended as desired by using ready-made additional packages or by programming routines oneself. R is particularly well suited as a first programming language, as high productivity can be achieved even with little prior knowledge. R supports the approach of literate programming, which enables easy reproducibility and traceability of data analyses. Therefore, R is a complete solution from data analysis to publication.