R Programming Tutorial

In our R tutorials, you'll find helpful tips and use cases to grow your programming skills. We'll keep you up to date with the latest techniques.

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Understanding Blockchains by Coding One in R

Implement a small blockchain in R and learn more about what a blockchain looks like and some of the core concepts behind it!

Johannes Mueller

February 8, 2018

Lyric Analysis with NLP & Machine Learning with R

Dive into the lyrics of Prince's music with R: use text mining and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to shed insight on The Artist's career.

Debbie Liske

February 2, 2018

Five Tips to Improve your R Code

Five useful tips that you can use to effectively improve your R code, from using seq() to create sequences to ditching which() and much more!

Simon Jackson

December 13, 2017

R Formula Tutorial

Discover the R formula and how you can use it in modeling- and graphical functions of well-known packages such as stats, and ggplot2.

Karlijn Willems

November 23, 2017

Pipes in R Tutorial For Beginners

Learn more about the famous pipe operator %>% and other pipes in R, why and how you should use them and what alternatives you can consider!

Karlijn Willems

December 21, 2022

The R Graph Gallery's Top 5 Most Visited Graph Themes

A list of the 5 most popular graphs among R users and enthusiasts.

DataCamp Team

April 14, 2017

Algorithmic Trading in R Tutorial

In this R tutorial, you'll do web scraping, hit a finance API and use an htmlwidget to make an interactive time series chart to perform a simple algorithmic trading strategy

Ted Kwartler

February 9, 2017

Web Scraping and Parsing Data in R | Exploring H-1b Data Pt. 1

Learn how to scrape data from the web, preprocess it and perform a basic exploratory data analysis with R

Ted Kwartler

January 12, 2017

15 Easy Solutions To Your Data Frame Problems In R

Discover how to create a data frame in R, change column and row names, access values, attach data frames, apply functions and much more.

Karlijn Willems

January 10, 2017

Web Scraping with R and PhantomJS

Short tutorial on scraping Javascript generated data with R using PhantomJS.

Filip Schouwenaars

March 16, 2015

A data.table R Tutorial: Intro to DT[i, j, by]

The free data.table R tutorial explains the basics and syntax of the data.table package for R. Master the data.table syntax now.

Karlijn Willems

February 3, 2015

What is the Best Statistical Programming Language? Infograph

The infograph 'Statistical Language Wars' compares statistical programming language like SAS, R and SPSS to see how they stack up.

Karlijn Willems

June 3, 2014