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R programming Roadmap

This document outlines a comprehensive roadmap for learning R programming, covering topics from installation and basic navigation to advanced data science techniques. It includes chapters on data manipulation, visualization, statistical analysis, machine learning, and web scraping, among others. The guide is designed to help users progress from beginner to advanced levels in data science using R.

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R programming Roadmap

This document outlines a comprehensive roadmap for learning R programming, covering topics from installation and basic navigation to advanced data science techniques. It includes chapters on data manipulation, visualization, statistical analysis, machine learning, and web scraping, among others. The guide is designed to help users progress from beginner to advanced levels in data science using R.

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Chapter 1: Introduction to R & Setup

 What is R? Why use R for Data Science?


 Installing R and RStudio
 RStudio Interface and Basic Navigation
 Writing and Executing R Scripts
 Installing and Loading Packages (install.packages(), library())
 Getting Help in R (?function_name, help(), vignette())

Chapter 2: R Basics - Data Types & Operators


 Variables & Assignment (<-, =, assign())
 Data Types in R
o Numeric, Integer, Character, Logical, Complex
o Factors and Dates
 Type Checking & Conversion (class(), typeof(), as.numeric(), etc.)
 Operators in R
o Arithmetic (+, -, *, /, %%, ^)
o Relational (==, !=, >, <, >=, <=)
o Logical (&, |, !)
o Assignment Operators (<-, ->, <<-)

Chapter 3: Data Structures in R


 Vectors (c(), seq(), rep(), indexing, operations)
 Lists (list(), accessing elements, modifying lists)
 Matrices (matrix(), operations, indexing)
 Data Frames (data.frame(), adding/removing columns, indexing)
 Tibbles (tibble(), differences from data frames)
 Factors (Categorical Data, factor(), levels(), relevel())

Chapter 4: Control Structures & Functions


 Conditional Statements (if, if-else, ifelse())
 Loops in R
o for loop
o while loop
o repeat loop
 apply() family of functions (apply(), sapply(), lapply(), tapply(), mapply())
 Writing Functions (function(), arguments, return values)
 Anonymous Functions (function(x) x^2)
 Error Handling (tryCatch(), stop(), warning())

Chapter 5: Data Manipulation with dplyr


 Introduction to dplyr package
 Key dplyr Functions
o select() – Selecting Columns
o filter() – Filtering Rows
o mutate() – Creating New Columns
o arrange() – Sorting Data
o summarise() & group_by() – Aggregations
o rename() – Renaming Columns
 Piping (%>%) in R (Chaining Functions)

Chapter 6: Working with Data - Importing & Exporting


 Reading and Writing Data
o CSV Files: read.csv(), write.csv()
o Excel Files: readxl::read_excel(), writexl::write_xlsx()
o JSON Files: jsonlite::fromJSON(), toJSON()
o SQL Databases: DBI & dplyr for SQL queries
o APIs: httr & jsonlite for API requests

Chapter 7: Data Cleaning & Preprocessing


 Handling Missing Data (is.na(), na.omit(), replace_na())
 Handling Duplicates (distinct())
 String Manipulation (stringr package, str_detect(), str_replace())
 Outlier Detection & Treatment (boxplot(), quantile())
 Data Transformation (tidyr package: gather(), spread(), separate(), unite())

Chapter 8: Data Visualization with ggplot2


 Introduction to ggplot2
 Components of ggplot (ggplot(), aes(), geom_*())
 Common Visualizations
o Scatter Plot (geom_point())
o Line Plot (geom_line())
o Bar Chart (geom_bar())
o Histogram (geom_histogram())
o Boxplot (geom_boxplot())
o Density Plot (geom_density())
 Customizing Plots (Themes, Colors, Labels)
 Faceting (facet_wrap(), facet_grid())
 Saving Plots (ggsave())

Chapter 9: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)


 Understanding Data Structure (str(), summary(), glimpse())
 Univariate Analysis (Histograms, Boxplots, Density Plots)
 Bivariate & Multivariate Analysis
o Scatter Plots, Correlation (cor(), corrplot)
o Crosstabs (table(), prop.table())
 Detecting and Handling Outliers

Chapter 10: Statistical Analysis in R


 Descriptive Statistics (mean(), median(), sd(), var(), summary())
 Inferential Statistics
o Hypothesis Testing (t.test(), chisq.test(), anova())
o Correlation & Regression (lm(), cor.test())
o Probability Distributions (rnorm(), runif(), rpois())

Chapter 11: Machine Learning with R (Caret &


Tidymodels)
 Introduction to Machine Learning in R
 Supervised Learning
o Linear Regression (lm(), caret)
o Logistic Regression (glm())
o Decision Trees (rpart, tree)
o Random Forests (randomForest)
o SVM (e1071, caret)
 Unsupervised Learning
o Clustering (kmeans(), hclust())
o PCA (prcomp())
 Model Evaluation (confusionMatrix(), ROC curve, RMSE)

Chapter 12: Time Series Analysis


 Introduction to Time Series Data
 Visualizing Time Series (ts(), plot())
 Moving Averages (SMA())
 Decomposing Time Series (decompose(), stl())
 Forecasting Models (ARIMA(), forecast())

Chapter 13: Text Mining with R


 Working with Text Data (tm, tidytext)
 Tokenization & Stop Words Removal
 Sentiment Analysis (syuzhet, bing, nrc)
 Wordclouds (wordcloud package)

Chapter 14: Web Scraping with R


 Introduction to Web Scraping
 Scraping HTML Data (rvest package)
 Handling JSON Data (jsonlite)
 Automating Scraping Tasks (RSelenium)

Chapter 15: Building R Shiny Dashboards


 Introduction to Shiny for Interactive Dashboards
 UI & Server Components
 Adding Widgets & Reactive Elements
 Deploying Shiny Apps
Chapter 16: Version Control & Reproducibility
 Using R with Git & GitHub
 Writing Reproducible Reports (rmarkdown)
 Workflow Automation (drake package)

This roadmap will take you from beginner to advanced data scientist using R.

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