This is a very, very good point. Though, many of the functions that R provides just won't make any sense at all if you don't have an intuition for the statistics behind it. I have found myself reading the papers published about specific functions in order to understand the results.
Do you have any resources that you suggest for beginners in statistics looking to learn on their own?
Do you have any resources that you suggest for beginners in statistics looking to learn on their own?