Setting up the R environment

For those of you who are planning to use the R language for the upcoming exercises and projects, we will discuss how to get your R environment ready for data science and machine learning tasks in this book. We will start by installing R and RStudio and then build a simple logistic regression model using R to familiarize ourselves with R for data science.

Installing R and RStudio

Along with Python, R is one of the most frequently used languages for data science and machine learning. The fact that it is very easy to use, and that there is a large number of R libraries for machine learning, attracts many data scientists. In order to use this language, you will need to download it from the following...