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# Welcome {.unnumbered}

This is the website for the 1st edition of **"Programming for Analytics in R"**.

This book was originally written as a companion set of readings for the course ["EMSE 4571 / 6571: Intro. to Programming for Analytics"](https://p4a.seas.gwu.edu/) at GWU. The book teaches you how to program in R and how to do some basic data science with R. It is designed for novice coders with little to no prior programming experience.

After reading this book, you should be able to:

- Develop simple programs to effectively solve medium-sized tasks by:
    - Employing modular, top-down design in program construction.
    - Pro-actively creating and writing test cases to test and debug code.
    - Applying computational problem-solving skills to new problems.

- Write clear, robust, and reasonably efficient code for working with data using:
    - Sequential, conditional, and loop statements.
    - Numeric, string, and logical data types.
    - Data structures, including lists, vectors, and data frames.

- Reproducibly import, export, wrangle, and visualize data in R.

This website is and will always be free, licensed under the [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/) License.

If you appreciate reading the book for free, please leave feedback on the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/jhelvy/p4a/issues/1) for the source code to the book.