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Rkoans is an interactive tutorial for learning R in a Unit-testing framework. No previous knowledge of R is required.

As well as being a fun way to learn R, it is also a good way to get an idea of test-driven development.

R is known to have a very steep learning curve. This is largely because people are often having to learn two things concurrently: statistics and programming. Either of these alone can be daunting but together it can sometimes seem insummountable. Most introductory R texts focus on learning stats first and then expect people to gradually absorbing coding skills by some form of osmosis. These problems take the opposite approach and teach the basics of R programming before delving into the stats side. However, once these basics are picked up, leaning the stats methods should feel much more intuative.