Added information on basic r syntax and paradigms

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-R is a programming language designed for statistical analysis and graphics.
-Since R has been around since 1992, it has developed a large community and has over [13 thousand packages](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/) publicly available.
-What is really cool about R is that it is an open source [GNU](http://www.gnu.org/) project.
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-# Why Use R
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-# R Syntax 
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-<youtube src="s3FozVfd7q4" />
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-# R Markdown
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-# Resources
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-- [R for Data Science(Online Book)](https://r4ds.had.co.nz/)
-- [R Studio](https://www.rstudio.com/)
-- [R Official Website](https://www.r-project.org/)

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+R is a programming language designed for statistical analysis and graphics.
+Since R has been around since 1992, it has developed a large community and has over [13 thousand packages](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/) publicly available.
+What is really cool about R is that it is an open source [GNU](http://www.gnu.org/) project.
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+# R Syntax and Paradigms
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+The syntax of R is C esk with its use of curly braces. 
+The type system of R is similar to Python where it can infer what type you are using.
+This "lazy" type system allows for "faster" development since you don't have to worry about declaring types -- this laziness makes it harder to debug and read your code.
+The type system of R is rather strange and distinctly different from most other languages.
+For starters, integers are represented as vectors of length 1.
+These things may feel weird at first, but, R's type system is one of the things that make it a great tool for manipulating data.
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+![R Arrays Start at 1](media/r/arrays.jpg)
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+Did I mention that arrays start at 1?
+Technically, the thing which we refer to as an array in C or Java is really a vector in R.
+Arrays in R are data objects which can store data in more than two dimensions.
+Since R tries to follow mathematical notation, indexing starts at 1 -- just like in linear algebra.
+Using zero based indexing makes sense for languages like C because the index is used to get at a particular memory location from a pointer.
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+<youtube src="s3FozVfd7q4" />
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+I don't have the time to go over the basic syntax of R in a single blog post, however, I feel that this youtube video does a pretty good job.
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+# R Markdown
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+# Resources
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+- [R for Data Science(Online Book)](https://r4ds.had.co.nz/)
+- [R Studio](https://www.rstudio.com/)
+- [R Official Website](https://www.r-project.org/)