Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s when you turned on a PC, more often than not, you’d get a Basic prompt. Most people would then load a game from a tape, but if you were inclined to program ...

The core of R was developed during the 1970s and since then, many libraries (such as the Tidyverse for data manipulation) have been developed to greatly extend the functionality of the language.

H ere's a secret you might not have known: you don't need advanced programming skills to write basic code, and learning how ...