This post is part of a series of "learning everything with R: An R book list". You can clink on this link to see other relevant posts. RStudio probably is the most popular interface to use R. But it definitely does not just serve as a code editor (than...

R is an open-source software package and rapidly increases its popularity in both industry and academics. Google trend is probably the best tool to show you how popular R is since it allows us to rank the search interest among five major statistical so...

As R is more and more popular in the industry as well as in the academics for analyzing financial data. For people unfamiliar with R, this post suggests some books for learning financial data analysis using R. From our teaching and learning R experien...

R is a great tool to visualize your data: it is free to use and has lots packages to make beautiful plots. In this post, we gonna teach you how to make time plots to visualize stock returns with data from Yahoo finance. For those not familiar with how to ...

You may consider R as a big calculator running on different operating systems (Windows, Apple, Unix...). The original interface for R is too simple, so many interfaces are developed for different needs. I will introduce three interfaces of R for people from beginners to professionals.R commander- Running R like ...

R is not easy to learn in the beginning, especially for people getting used to some click-and-point commercial softwares.  However, as an economist (also see this post) points out the serious question about the computing with some commercial softwares, we need to give some thoughts about it and try to ...