Programming Background
# Working directory is /Users/Blog but for some reason the render function is looking into the _Rmd folder
rmarkdown::render(
'2022-06-03-programming-background.Rmd',
output_format = "github_document",
output_dir = "../_posts",
output_options = list(
html_preview = FALSE
)
)
Background
Coming from a .NET background, using languages like R is a bit different since there is no compilation step and, because of that, no type checking. A part of me likes this since the type checking can be helpful to find errors as early as possible in the development process.
However, with interpretable languages like R more and more tools are becoming available that make it easier to spot similar types of errors. R Studio gets better every day so it’s getting better to find errors early on in development.
While R isn’t a hard language to learn, in fact, I’d say it’s one of the easier ones, getting started with it has become a lot easier. Since Jupyter and RStudio have come a lot, getting started has become so easy you can start coding with a Chromebook and a book on R.
Example R Output
plot(ToothGrowth)
