What are the most important skills, qualities, or characteristics you need to be "good at R"?

Determination, willingness to learn, patience.

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Ability to solve most of your daily problems with R

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patience, ability to transfer concepts in some online example into your particular case, ability to distill distracting information in online example from the information that you need to solve your particular case

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ability to google for questions effectively

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solid grasp of basic functions without looking them up

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A hell of a lot of patience

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supportive staff

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Being able to dissect/understand the help files

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Understanding that there may be a more efficient way of performing the same action and knowing how to figure out how to do the same thing in different ways

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Persistence

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Being able to formulate tasks algorithmically (in terms of simple sequential steps)

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The ability to compare source and output and learn via experimentation

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Being calm and not freaking out/giving up when you get an error message (there will always be error messages)

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Ability to think about your data abstractly in order to grasp the possibility of long/wide transformations, new variables and different data structures

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Organization and patience

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Creativity

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1. Googling skills, i.e. finding answers to questions you might have that someone has already asked and then managing to apply how the original asker's problem was solved to your own problem. 2. Properly explaining problems which seemingly no one before had (e.g. on Stack Exchange).

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Being introduced to it with worked examples and support to give you a good basic understanding, that you can then develop.

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Strong knowledge of base R. Should be able to load, clean, and analyse dataset with copying and pasting code. Strong knowledge of important R syntax.

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patience, detail-oriented, forget other statistical platforms

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Know for what to search in stack overflow and understand what they are talking about

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Knowing when to walk away and take a break.

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Being able to think through a problem abstractly

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knowing what a shell us...

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Data wrangling, working according to the tidyverse paradigm in addition to base functions, writing own functions, and last but certainly not least: (basic) statistical literacy

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Grit! And it helps to know when to walk away and try again later :)

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Another important thing I've found helpful in R is independent learning - being able to figure out where you've gone wrong and find solutions BY YOURSELF (it's so satisfying)

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Patience to learn R and Googling

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Googling, a certain sense of playfulness and a willingness to read error messages

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Willingness to experiment plus keeping a careful record of what you've done.

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Having a really strong grasp of the fundamental of R (how R thinks, how to understand arguments)

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Understanding the syntax, oh and how to Google.

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Recognizing the limitations of your own knowledge and understanding; Determination; Imagination; Facility for generous and inclusive experimentation and detail-orientated record-keeping.

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an ignorance of the existence of python ;)

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