In this chapter, you understood the software required to develop a machine learning solution. You saw why R, combined with RStudio, is a good tool to use to help you overcome machine learning challenges.

You learned about the basics of R and some of the most important data types and functions. You have also seen packages such as data.table and plyr.

The next chapter shows you a simple example of a challenge that can be faced using exploratory data analysis and machine learning. You will see R tools used to build charts and use machine learning algorithms.