R - My journey so far

The first time I heard about R, was about 4 years ago...a couple of week after I joined SAP. At that time I read in one of our internal documents that SAP HANA was going to be able to interact with the R programming Language.

At first, I was totally clueless about R...I had never heard from it before...so I of course start looking for some more information, download R and RStudio and start learning how to use it...

After some time...I posted my first blog talking about R...that was on November 28, 2011...the blog was Dealing with R and HANA...

After that I kept learning and using it whenever it was suitable...and I end up writing my most successful blog on the SAP Community Network...that was on May 21, 2012.

When SAP HANA met R - First kiss

That up to now, has 21,879 views and 62 comments, 16 likes and 32 bookmarks.

R is huge...it really is...there's thousands of packages that solve thousands of issues...so that's when I start reading R related books from my good friends at Packt Publishing...

Web Application Development with R using Shiny (See my review here).

As I was improving my R skills...I knew that something was missing...I really didn't knew much about Statistics and my Machine Learning skills were pretty dull as well...that's when I read another awesome book...and I think my favorite book on R so far...

Machine Learning with R (See my review here).

Another topic that it's interesting is Social Media...and how to get value out of it...

Social Media Mining with R (See my review here).

If you're wondering how Social Media can be used with R, then please take a look at my blog Getting Flexible with SAP HANA where I use SAP HANA, R, Twitter and Schema Flexibility to analyze hashtags that can be further explored using for example SAP Lumira.

If you are into the Bioinformatics world...which I'm not -:( You should appreciate this book...

Bioinformatics with R Cookbook (See my review here).

And there are some more books that I haven't read yet, but might help you to get started into the R world like...

Data Manipulation with R

R Data Visualization Cookbook

Instant R Starter

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Greetings,

Blag.

Development Culture.