R help - Sep 2022 - How long does it take to learn the R programming language?

The length of time it takes to learn R is dependent on what you want to use R
for.
Let's assume you want to use R to perform basic statistical analyses on your
own.

IMHO, the best book for self-study for this is Andy Field's book,
Discovering Statistics using R, It's the best book because it gives you all
the necessary background for using basic statistical tests and the associated R
scripts needed to perform them.

You might also want to consider Winston Chang's The R? Graphics Cookbook,
statistical analyses often need graphs to illustrate the data. This is the best
book to teach you this because it gives you all the necessary R scripts to
achieve this.

The learning curve for learning basic statistical analyses using R is steep
relative to SPSS and Minitab. SPSS and Minitab use GUIs to easily guide the user
to the desired statistical analysis. Typically the user does not have to write
commands to do this. R does offer R Commander which has a GUI to guide the user
to data input, graphing and statistical analyses. You may find this useful. I
suspect that as you become more comfortable using R, you will become less
dependent on R Commander for your analyses.

Hope this helps!

Thomas Subia


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Given some of the questions that are posted to this list, I am not
sure that there is an upper bound to the estimate.

Jim