I’ve read about R and I am going to explore that.
As I’ve read it can be used for analysis and some editing. Even using AI is possible m.
Anyone here with experience with R?
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Yup! Not an expert but a help at times for the occasional R problem. 
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What have you done with R? Any tips on how hat to look for.
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Start with the tidyverse: https://www.tidyverse.org/, not because it’s the right way to do R, but because it’s a consistent way to do R.
I have a few blog posts, mostly on gorillas and golden monkeys where I used R: smathermather.com
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Some package on pointclouds?
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I would recommend checking out a GUI like R-Studio, especially when getting started. Helps lower the barrier to entry.
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Do you use R also?
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Very, very poorly, yes.
I mostly use it via the R processing toolbox in QGIS now.
A former student I TAd has an incredible blog on how she uses R that I’ve been trying to find for you 
Boom:
She was incredible with R. Went from never using it to basically an expert within a Quarter. I had nothing to do with that 
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I’ve installed R for QGis but I can’t seem to download the charred package of algorithms.
It seems so be a lot of pointcloud packages and I hope to learn some neural network stuff.
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My biggest problem with programming isn’t really learning stuff, it’s finding a use for it and finding the time to make something.
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I used R when I wrote my master’s thesis, and while I enjoyed working with R more than Excel I get the feeling that it probably wouldn’t be something I could jump back into five years later.
Good stuff, though, and I look forward to seeing how it could be used in this environment!
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Started testing to learn the basics.
I failed making a function with a FOR loop that should result in a new list.
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I was fairly proficient before I decided to figure everything out in python now ( which so far, I’ve found to be possible). I think you’ll find the statistical analysis packages slightly more robust than python’s. Here’s a book I helped my Professor with - Introduction to Environmental Data Science. There’s a women from NUSO who’s done some cool stuff with lidar point clouds. I’ll dig around for her code.
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Going forward…
Tried for loops, nested for loops, plot, apply, %>% and reading in files as CSV and LAZ…
I find it strangely easy to do things. Even though R isn’t very fast it makes up for it in ease off use.
Haven’t done anything productive though, hopefully I find something. Any tips and tricks that you can give is appreciated.
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Just learned there’s something called “tidy data”.
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Indeed!
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