Chapter 3 Welcome
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3.1 Why read this book?
This book is intended for beginners in R programming. There are a lot of books available online, however there are limited books intended for beginners which focus on hands on programming. This book is specifically intended for beginners who wants to develop hands on programming skills. Though we will be covering the essential theory behind some of the concepts, we will not be going in nitty gritty of those concepts. The theoretical concepts can be covered separately in another book.
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