If you’re ready to learn, we have just the ticket: A free PDF of Computerworld‘s “Beginner’s guide to R.” Sure, it will take more than any single guide to make you an R master.

[This story is part of Computerworld’s “Beginner’s guide ... in perhaps a dozen programming languages, and the hardest language for me to learn has been R,” writes consultant John D.

R is an open-source programming language that enables effective handling of data while providing powerful graphical capabilities. This workshop series is tailored to beginners and assumes no prior ...