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  This book will teach you how to program in R, with hands-on examples. I 
  wrote it for non-programmers to provide a friendly introduction  to the R
  language. You'll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data 
  objects, navigate R's environment system, write your own functions, and
  use all of R's programming tools. Throughout the book, you'll use your
  newfound skills to solve practical data science problems.
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## Welcome {.unnumbered}

This is the website for **"Hands-On Programming with R"**. This book will teach you how to program in R, with hands-on examples. I wrote it for non-programmers to provide a friendly introduction to the R language. You'll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data objects, navigate R's environment system, write your own functions, and use all of R's programming tools. Throughout the book, you'll use your newfound skills to solve practical data science problems.

If you are already comfortable with R, and would like to focus instead how to analyze data using R's Tidyverse packages, I recommend [R for Data Science](http://r4ds.had.co.nz/), a book that I co-authored with Hadley Wickham.

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This book was originally created using [bookdown](https://bookdown.org) and published at <https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/>. This site is a port of the original book source to the [Quarto](https://quarto.org) publishing system in order to provide an example of it's use.
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## License

This website is (and will always be) **free to use**, and is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License. If you'd like a **physical copy** of the book, you can order it from [amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Programming-Write-Functions-Simulations/dp/1449359019); it was published by O'Reilly in July 2014. If you'd like to give back, please consider reporting a typo or leaving a pull request at [github.com/rstudio-education/hopr](https://github.com/rstudio-education/hopr).