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Edith Podhovnik, PhD's avatar

R is on my list to learn - even though I don't need it for my job. I have bought the book "R for linguists" and will work through it after finishing with Python.

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Bella | My Ph.Diary.'s avatar

Ooo I never thought about apply R to linguistics, that’s so interesting!

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Edith Podhovnik, PhD's avatar

It's so versatile and there are good packages for statistics and the likes. I started with Python because I used a web scraper for my research (cat-related online language variation)

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Saurabh Dalvi's avatar

R programming is essential for us and must learn for upcoming researchers

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Andrea Grandi's avatar

Very useful overview, I also did the Edx course during my Postdoc.

Wish I could read this during my PHD : )

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Rocks for Jocks's avatar

I love using R, especially with R Studio markdown files!

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Bella | My Ph.Diary.'s avatar

Yes! I just started using markdown more recently and I love how organized it keeps everything.

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