{"id":5982,"date":"2025-08-11T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/catch22_learning_r_through_hands_on_projects\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:03:04","slug":"catch22_learning_r_through_hands_on_projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/catch22_learning_r_through_hands_on_projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch-22: Learning R through &#8220;hands on&#8221; Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Catch-22: Learning R through &#8220;hands on&#8221; Projects<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I often get told &#8220;learn data science by doing hands-on projects&#8221; and then I get all fired up and motivated to learn, and then I open up R&#8230;. And then I stare at a blank screen because I don&#8217;t know the syntax from memory. <\/p>\n<p>And then I tell myself I&#8217;m going to learn the syntax so that I can do projects, but then I get caught up creating folders for each function of dplyr and the subfunctions of that and cheat sheets for this.<\/p>\n<p>And then I come across the advice that I shouldn&#8217;t learn syntax for the sake of learning syntax &#8211; I should do hands on projects.<\/p>\n<p>I need projects to learn syntax and I need syntax to start doing projects.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/DataAnalystWanabe\"> \/u\/DataAnalystWanabe <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datascience\/comments\/1mmzk4s\/catch22_learning_r_through_hands_on_projects\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datascience\/comments\/1mmzk4s\/catch22_learning_r_through_hands_on_projects\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    \/u\/DataAnalystWanabe<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datascience\/comments\/1mmzk4s\/catch22_learning_r_through_hands_on_projects\/\">Go to original source<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch-22: Learning R through &#8220;hands on&#8221; Projects I often get told &#8220;learn data science by doing hands-on projects&#8221; and then I get all fired up and motivated to learn, and then I open up R&#8230;. And then I stare at a blank screen because I don&#8217;t know the syntax from memory. And then I tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,99],"tags":[677,2876,3475],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aimldsaimlds","category-datascience","tag-learn","tag-projects","tag-syntax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}